
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.
Dear readers! In September the CeMAT RUSSIA exhibition was held, which showed everyone that innovations and robotics are increasingly penetrating the logistics industry. We can safely say that many technologies are tested here, and only then they go out into the world. However, it is not only CeMAT RUSSIA that demonstrates the prevalence of the digital agenda.
Dear readers! This is the ninth issue of the journal, which turned out to be very rich and diverse. Traditionally, the issue is opened by an analyst. The material by Alina Nasyrova from the Market Guide Agency, dedicated to investments in warehouse complexes in Russia, recalls the importance of developing logistics infrastructure for the integrated development of regions.
Vladimir Stepanov, Ph.D.in economics, professor of business and logistics in Plekhanov Russian University of Economics addressed to the Readers. According to V.I. Stepanov, modern logistics is experiencing a global stage of development, which provides options for merging the logistics business entities in the territorial formations, requiring changes in the structure of such associations.
In this issue Vladimir Eskin devoted his article «Cross-functional Logistics Coordination» to the problems of the rationalization of organizational structures. In continuation of this theme in the article «On Some Aspects of the Problem of Creating a Regional Logistics Industrial Park» Yevgeny Makarov and Valery Shalin highlight the problems of specific logistics association in the form of creating rational logistics industrial parks on the territory of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Klepikov suggests specific practical solutions to urgent problems in the sphere of logistics. In particular, these solutions are: the calculation of the parameters of the cargo terminal as an example of the logistics center, it being justified by modern logistics approach to the integration of production and business activities in the territorial formations of different management levels.
The Readers of «LOGISTICS» are certain to have noted that the published articles on the theoretical and practical aspects of logistics activities in one way or another reflect the modern trends in both foreign and domestic logistics. In this context, the editorial board of the «LOGISTICS» journal invites all the participants of the creative logistics process ‒ theorists, practitioners, researchers, analysts, doctoral students, graduate students and students to write and send articles to our journal.