
Dear readers! We present to you the first issue of 2026, in which we have collected a number of interesting materials on issues of modern logistics.
We are pleased to present to you the final issue of the journal in 2025 and inform you that LOGISTICS is opening a new page in its development by starting cooperation with the Crystal Growth Foundation, which means that the information saturation of the publication will change for the better. The first issue is dedicated to one of the innovative domestic developments, AI-Kantorovich, which the Crystal Growth Foundation created together with Hive Mind AI.
Dear readers! We are pleased to present to you the eleventh issue of the journal in 2025. There are a lot of relevant and useful materials in the issue, which, hopefully, will not be ignored.
Vladimir Stepanov, Ph.D.in economics, professor of business and logistics in Plekhanov Russian University of Economics addressed to the Readers. According to V.I. Stepanov, modern logistics is experiencing a global stage of development, which provides options for merging the logistics business entities in the territorial formations, requiring changes in the structure of such associations.
In this issue Vladimir Eskin devoted his article «Cross-functional Logistics Coordination» to the problems of the rationalization of organizational structures. In continuation of this theme in the article «On Some Aspects of the Problem of Creating a Regional Logistics Industrial Park» Yevgeny Makarov and Valery Shalin highlight the problems of specific logistics association in the form of creating rational logistics industrial parks on the territory of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Klepikov suggests specific practical solutions to urgent problems in the sphere of logistics. In particular, these solutions are: the calculation of the parameters of the cargo terminal as an example of the logistics center, it being justified by modern logistics approach to the integration of production and business activities in the territorial formations of different management levels.
The Readers of «LOGISTICS» are certain to have noted that the published articles on the theoretical and practical aspects of logistics activities in one way or another reflect the modern trends in both foreign and domestic logistics. In this context, the editorial board of the «LOGISTICS» journal invites all the participants of the creative logistics process ‒ theorists, practitioners, researchers, analysts, doctoral students, graduate students and students to write and send articles to our journal.