

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.
Annotation. The article discusses the importance of freight forwarding activities for the Russian economy and its foreign economic relations. The state of the legal and regulatory framework governing the freight forwarding activities in Russia is analyzed, as well as its main regulatory documents are assessed. The problems hampering the development of transport forwarding in our country are reavealed. The analysis and the possibility of using foreign experience in the regulation of transport and forwarding activities is propsed.
The article discusses the key problems of current logistics performance in the case USA, China and Russia. It shows the basic trends of logistics and sea trade development in the countries. Based on the key findings there are suggested possible solutions to these problems.
Key words. Logistics, international sea delivery, sea transport, freight, global market, government logistics regulation.
The issues tasks of the development of the transport and logistics infrastructure and prospects for the development of logistics capabilities in the countries of the Eurasian Union are considered. The main restrictions in the sphere of transport are presented.
The article defines the indicators of transport infrastructure, which have a key impact on the socio-economic indicators of the Volgograd region. Standardized coefficients are calculated that allow to determine the degree of contribution of each -variable to the linear multiple regression equation. It is shown that the growth in the values of the indicators «Density of communication lines for motor transport» and «Number of transport enterprises» has the greatest influence on dependent variables.
In this paper we consider the problem of managing traffic in all types of communications under conditions of digitalization. Possible schemes of interaction between the subjects of the market of transport services and various modes of transport for foreign trade in mixed communications are presented. It is recommended to take into account all types of interaction and coordination of the activities of different types of transport, as well as transport and other markets, when choosing a route for transport and freight flows. The term «logistic transportation» is interpreted.