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 new values of the Logistics Indicator for Q2 are sobering, as they are all at their lowest level in a year and a half. The index for the business climate fell to 81.7 points after 83.9 in the ...
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The figures for Q4 2024 had led us to be slightly optimistic, as business expectations in the logistics sector had risen slightly. As the new values of the Logistics Indicator from Q1 2025 show, this ...
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The BVL Logistics Indicator for the 4th quarter has been published. Together with PwC, BVL is presenting an extended commentary for the first time, for which numerous structured interviews were ...
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The business climate in the logistics sector in German deteriorated again in the third quarter of the year after improving in the previous quarter. The corresponding index fell from 85.3 points to ...
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Commentary on the Logistics Indicator Q2 2024 by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wimmer, Chairman of the Board of Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL) e.V. From the beginning of 2023, the Logistics Indicator ...
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Encouragement needs a long-term perspective in times of multi-crisis In a saying attributed to Alexander von Humboldt, we should “wait and see what happens in the future and enjoy or accept the ...
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At first glance, it is difficult to sugar-coat the findings for the Logistics Indicator. After the shock of the war in Ukraine there was only a brief uptrend at the end of last year. All the ...
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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 ...