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Taking stock
E-commerce has had a transformative effect on city centres but now the booming demand for warehouses to speed-up last-mile deliveries is set to bring another round of dramatic change to our urban landscape.
Making the move
What raises last-mile delivery from perfunctory hand-off to attentive art? Three leading lights of logistics reveal all.
The full package
Yamato Transport is Japan’s largest parcel-delivery service but it's also much more. Its president, Yutaka Nagao, explains how understanding customer needs is key to the brand’s enduring success.
Shipping families
The big names of the world’s oceans tend to keep it in the family – we meet the generational giants.
Motional issue
In this edition we consider the systems and logistical threads that allow us to make those all-important connections, whether at the airport, the railway station or in the art gallery.
Expo no. 84: Freight of your life
It might be a panda en route to a zoo or cashmere jumpers heading for Boston. Regardless of value, there's a good chance it will be shipped through Hong Kong International Airport’s cargo hub.
Safe passage
Transporting works of art is a delicate, high-value business. As the sector expands, Monocle explored the fine art of moving priceless paintings and sculptures around the world.
On a roll
Despite having 13,000km of rail track, most of Turkey’s exports are transported by road or sea. Now, a freight-train pioneer wants to make the country king of the rails.
Special delivery
Monocle offers an insight into the world's most efficient and well turned-out logistics companies, from transporting cash in South Africa to packing delicate contemporary art in London.
Up the tubes
Email made pneumatic tubes seem obsolete, but logistics firm Swisslog saw potential in healthcare. Now, new hospitals use its networks to transport drugs and samples, marking a technological renaissance.
