

Dear readers! We present to you a fresh issue of the magazine dedicated to current issues in the logistics industry.
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.
An article discusses role of logistics, especially of its service branch (as science and practice of managing human flows), in a socially oriented economics. Author specifies service-logistics clusters in comparison with another types of clusters. She shows the importance of cities-ties for the innovative development.
Key words. Service logistics, service-logistics clusters, cities-ties, management of human flows, flows of holidaymakers, personnel flows, innovations.
An article analyses logistic management features of trans-border high-tech product flows under imperative restricts by the system of state regulating in the field of foreign economic activity.
Key words. High-tech products, trans-border flows, logistic management, customs control, export control.
The article explains the basic properties of flows that are represented in simulation models of logistics systems. A new mesoscopic modeling method for flow systems is presented which is based on the Discrete Rate paradigm specified in the simulation software ExtendSim.
Key words. Material flow, сonceptual model, simulation modeling, mesoscopic models.