The UK’s ports, transport, logistics, and infrastructure sectors have just completed another demanding year. The pressures of 2025 went beyond simply affecting day-to-day operations, revealing deeper structural issues, long-running skills challenges, and rising expectations from customers and regulators. As we move into 2026, these lessons point toward a new operating reality.

By 2023, at least 50 percent of global companies will use IoT, advanced analytics, and AI in supply chain operations. That’s according to this report from Gartner.