Logistics Indicator in co-operation with ifo Institue
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The world is in motion – which makes it all the more important to possess a reliable compass. Since 2008, the Logistics Indicator of BVL serves as a valuable tool for strategists and planners in logistics. It helps them to find their bearings and acts as a seismograph for a highly internationally interlinked sector of the economy that employs more than three million people in Germany.
The scientific director of the project is Prof. Timo Wollmershäuser, deputy director of the Ifo Center for Business Cycle Research and Surveys. The economist and business cycle expert is a student of Prof. Peter Bofinger, one of the five economic experts who make up the German Council of Economic Experts.
After more than nine years of successful cooperation with Prof. Stefan Kooths - first at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin and then at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) - BVL has teamed up with the ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich in autumn 2017. The cooperation makes it possible to link BVL's Logistics Indicator with the prominent ifo business climate index.
Background and methodology
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Members of BVL find the historical data of the Logistics Indicator here for download as Excel file: Download historical data of the Logistics Indicator by BVL und ifo Institut as of current month ...
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The slowdown in the global economy is also increasingly reflected by the Logistics Indicator. Many companies are suffering from declining demand levels, with widespread reports of falling volumes of ...
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The interplay of expectations, perceptions and experiences At first glance, the current trend could easily be summarised as “everything seems to be getting worse”. The only good news are the ...
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Last year’s pessimism not confirmed in Q1 - Phase of continuous price hikes evidently over Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the index scores for the Logistics Indicator plummeted ...
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Business expectations still bleak – but current business situation still stable The bad news is that the current business situation in the logistics sector in the fourth quarter is worse than at ...
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The business climate slowed once again significantly in Q3 against the prior quarter, falling to a level of just 87.6 points. This was not surprising given galloping inflation and the persisting ...
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A collage made up of four photos of legendary actor Jack Nicholson is circulating on the Internet, showing Jack in moods ranging from irritated to teeth-gnarling to resigned – and featuring the ...
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It was so good! When decision-makers in the logistics sector came together for the International Supply Chain Conference in Berlin in October, the joy of seeing each other again and the upbeat mood ...
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The good news brought to us by the Logistics Indicator for the 3rd quarter of 2021 is this: the pandemic may still not be over, but the scores of the respondents for the current business situation ...
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The economy was fortunately spared the so-called “Easter Rest” – the temporary tightening of the lockdown that the German government was hoping to implement at the end of March. This meant that ...
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The economy in general and the logistics sector in particular were not affected to any great degree by the social and political “corona fatigue” that began to spread during the first quarter of ...
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As we approach the end of the year, will the lockdown blues turn into winter blues? Will the economy jump back to life in the spring? Until the end of last month, we were happy to see a V-shaped curve ...
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So where are we headed? Will we see a V, U, W or even an L-shaped recovery? The findings for the Logistics Indicator based on the August 2020 survey suggest that we will probably see a V-shaped ...
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We will not forget March 2020 in a hurry. On March 9, Italy declared the entire country a no-go zone after being hit hard by the corona pandemic; by March 16, there was not a single control-free ...
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The heading for this commentary could also have been “Slight optimism but for corona” – because when the ifo institute sent us the results of the February survey, our initial feeling was that ...
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In the run-up to Christmas and the new year, we really ought to be spreading the good news. But not everything is rosy in December 2019, and it’s important that we are realistic about the global ...
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The honorary treasurer of BVL always stands up when he presents his financial report. His – perhaps tongue-in-cheek – explanation is that he does this “out of respect for the figures”. And the ...
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It has been just two years since the last “transport logistic” fair, but the economic scenario has changed significantly since this leading event closed its doors in 2017. Two years ago in May ...
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Temporary slowdown or recession? This is the question that has been preoccupying economic researchers since the autumn of last year. According to the “four-phase theory”, an upturn is followed by ...
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Now is a time for plain talk: as one of the most highly interconnected countries in the world, Germany has a fundamental interest in open markets, fair rules and the advancement of international ...
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Now is a time for plain talk: as one of the most highly interconnected countries in the world, Germany has a fundamental interest in open markets, fair rules and the advancement of international ...
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The good news is that the business situation is better than ever before. For the second time in a row, 4,000 polled decision-makers in industry, trade and logistics services say the current situation ...
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The climate in the German logistics industry is excellent – as underlined by the findings of the ifo Insitute for the BVL Logistics Indicator in the first quarter of 2018. The ifo Institute arrives ...