NEWS BLOG

Following our earlier feature, From Logistics to the Racetrack, which introduced Trans-Rak International’s partnership with 7 Racing, the 2026 UK Championship continued at Snetterton 300 for Round 2, delivering another strong weekend of competition and a standout result for the Trans-Rak team.

A new industry forecast shows that the global logistics automation market is expected to grow sharply from about US $36.9 billion value in 2025 to roughly US $70.6 billion by 2031 (some put the figure as high as B$146), representing an annual growth of more than 11% over five years. These systems, which include robotics, autonomous vehicles, and advanced control software, are being adopted within various logistics and transport sectors to improve efficiency at all levels of global supply chains.

In international vehicle logistics, quoting the ocean freight alone is never usually enough to secure a sale. What clients actually care about, and what determines whether a shipment is profitable or painful, is your Total Landed Cost (TLC). Accurately calculating and communicating the TLC is especially important if you are shipping multiple vehicles, or using space-optimisation tools such as multi-vehicle racking solutions.

Exporting a vehicle from the UK to the United States is not difficult, but it is procedural. For automotive logistics businesses, therefore, success depends less on timing and more on disciplined sequencing: compliance screening first, documentation second, movement last. This guide walks through the process as it actually works in the field, explaining the regulatory framework, the documents that matter, and the best practices that prevent delays, penalties, and unhappy clients.

Europe’s transport and logistics industry is experiencing an uptick in mergers and acquisitions, driven by strategic consolidation, digital transformation, and a shared focus on multi-modal capability and ecological transition. This consolidation trend has several implications for the car transport shipping sector, where customers — including automotive OEMs, distributors and global dealers — are placing a higher value on reliability, flexibility and integrated logistics solutions.

For much of the past two decades, vehicle logistics has sat comfortably below the executive radar. It was operational, repeatable, and – most of the time at least – predictable. Today, however, that assumption no longer fully stands. Among OEMs, exporters, and finished vehicle logistics providers, decisions once made at an operational level are increasingly being escalated to the board. This is not because logistics has suddenly become more complex in isolation, but because the risks attached to it have become more material to business continuity, financial exposure, and brand reputation.

At Trans-Rak, we understand that protecting the planet is not just a responsibility, it’s an essential part of building a sustainable future for logistics and transport. This Earth Day, we want to share how our innovative racking systems are designed with sustainability at their core.

Throughout many UK and European gateways, long dwell times, inspection queues, and long-term berth congestion are shaping how cargo is handled long before it reaches the quayside. For automotive exporters, this pressure is forcing a rethink of how vehicles are prepared, secured, and accessed inside each vehicle container. The critical shift is this: when ports are under strain, anything that slows handling, inspection, or rework becomes a liability. Let’s look at some of the ways that endemic port congestion in Europe (and throughout the world) is driving innovative thinking in load design.

Automotive supply chains often treat vehicles as a “special case”: oversized, awkward-to-handle, and traditionally moved in dedicated automotive channels. But the wider high-value cargo market, including pharma, electronics, aerospace spares, and luxury goods, has spent years solving a problem that automotive logistics is only now feeling more sharply: how to move expensive, damage-sensitive products through mixed, capacity-constrained networks with tighter security expectations.