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Jan. 23, 2025

   
 

Supply Chain by the Numbers for January 23, 2025

   
 

Demand for Warehouse Space Jumps. Trump May Start Chinese Tariffs Soon. ATA Sees Modest Freight Growth in 2025. EV Charger Build Out Paused


 
 
 
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61 Million

 


That is how many square feet of space warehouse developer Prologis leased in Q4, a record number for the company, and much of that volume coming in the last month of the year. That from company CEO Hamid Moghadam this week. The news is interesting because demand for warehouse space trended down in 2024 after two years of rapid growth. What’s going on? Moghadam said that companies leased more space at the end of the fourth quarter as they gained more certainty about the next four years. “It seems like the handbrake has been released. And I wouldn’t say it’s euphoric, don’t get me wrong, but I think people seem to be back in the mode of doing business,” Moghadam added. “The momentum is carrying into the new year, but we’ll see. We’ll see if it has legs.”
 
 
 
 
 
 

1.6%

That was the forecast in freight tonnage growth for US trucking firms in 2025, according to the annual forecast from the American Trucking Associations released late last week. If accurate it would mark a switch to freight growth this year after two years of declines, in what many have called a freight recession in the US, seen despite decent economic growth. Other key findings in ATA’s Freight Transportation Forecast 2024 to 2035 include this: total truck tonnage will rise from an estimated 11.27 billion tons in 2024 to 13.99 billion tons in 2035, or a rise of 24%. Over that same period, trucking industry revenues will grow from an estimated $906 billion to $1.46 trillion, accounting for 76.8% of the freight market by the end of the forecast period.

 
 
 

10%

 

Here we go – that is the new additional tariff on goods imported from China – on top of other ones put in place in his first term and not rescinded under Biden – that newly elected President Trump may impose as early as next week. That according to comments made in a press conference this week. During the campaign, Trump had promised new tariffs on Chinese imports as high as 60%. In the press conference, Trump said that too much fentanyl is coming into the United States from China via Mexico and Canada, and that the threat of tariffs could get China to crack down on the deadly drug.

 

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$7.5 Billion

That’s how much funding for the building of charging stations across the US for electric vehicles was created by the Biden administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. You can forget about that now. This week, new President Trump signed an executive order requiring a pause in all funding from that bill as well as the Inflation Reduction Act, presumably now subject for review. That’s as part of a slew of executive orders signed this week by Trump. The funding directive, included in a broad energy-focused executive order, contends that aid for EVs and other “ill-conceived government-imposed market distortions” effectively mandate their purchase. Expecting slumping EV growth to fall even further in 2025.
 
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