Demand for 4PL services forecast to surpass $104B by end of 2030

As global supply chains face significant uncertainties in 2025 due to ongoing geopolitical disruptions and evolving trade policies, more companies are looking for one-stop-shop solutions such as fourth-party logistics providers (4PLs).

The 4PL market has grown 10% over the past two years and is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 8.39% to reach $104.54 billion by the end of 2030, according to a study by Verified Market Reports.

“There’s more disruption. There’s more fluidity in the design of global networks,” David Gonzalez, vice president in the logistics, customer fulfillment and network design team at Gartner, told FreightWaves in an interview.

Technology research and consulting firm Gartner recently released its 2024 “Market Guide for Fourth-Party Logistics,” which discusses the value 4PLs deliver in an ever-changing global logistics network.

“Companies are choosing to make products in different locations, which results in a different flow of freight from various different countries, and that increases complexity, but also the flexibility that companies want to retain in the way that they deploy their global supply chain networks. I think those two are the key reasons why we’ve see

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