2017 Rate Outlook: Will the pieces fall into place?

摘要

Today's logistics managers should not be surprised that IHS Markit's annual "Economic Predictions" was shaped largely by major global political changes in the second half of 2016-the same holds true for our transportation analysts who make up our 2017 Rate Outlook. Up until the recent U.S. presidential election, most global economists believed that Brexit would be the major "game changer," but then along came Donald Trump, the surprise populist winner who pledged to invest in domestic transport infrastructure while renegotiating pending international trade agreements.