Ti — Asia Pacific Logistics Monitor Sizes Road Freight at €1,693.6 Billion and Ocean Index at 297.3 (free)

Ti's September Monitor for Asia Pacific Logistics: outsourced road freight reached €1,693.6 billion in 2025 (45.7% of the global market) with an annual growth of 5.2% until 2030, while the freight index recorded its strongest quarterly rise since 2021.

Ti's September Monitor for Asia Pacific Logistics combines the region's most important events with the consultancy's own research and data, relying on the Q3 2026 Freight Rate Tracker and new road freight data in Ti's Total Logistics Market Sizing 2026. On freight markets, Ti's global headhaul freight index reached 297.3 in July, its strongest quarterly rise since 2021, concentrated in Asia-origin routes where carriers tightly managed capacity. Headhaul rates out of China and East Asia hit $6,729 per FEU to the US West Coast and $5,612 per FEU to Europe, up 204.1% and 86.7% year-on-year, while return rates were only $424 and $552, reflecting the one-way nature of the region's trade. Rates declined at the end of the quarter, with analysts expecting firm but more balanced pricing in the fourth quarter. On logistics measurement, new data valued the outsourced road freight market in Asia Pacific at €1,693.6 billion in 2025 — representing 45.7% of the global market and the region's largest logistics sector — with an annual growth of 5.2% to €2,178.6 billion by 2030, with India leading at 8.5% growth. Total logistics in Asia Pacific was valued at €2,477.5 billion, representing 43.6% of the global market. The monitor also records Ningbo-Zhoushan port surpassing Singapore in Alphaliner's Top 30 ranking for the first time, de minimis reform reshaping e-commerce air cargo with a 30% decline in Hong Kong–Europe volumes in August, the Chinese parcel market reaching 198.95 billion shipments in 2025, logistics M&A accelerating to 62 deals in August, and fuel prices reaching dangerous levels with November Brent at $107.