Logistics Insider Magazine – May Issue 2025 (Digital Magazine)

As the Indian subcontinent braces for an unusually intense summer, the May 2025 issue of Logistics Insider sets its editorial gaze on the urgent fragilities within India’s cold chain logistics—a sector increasingly pivotal in ensuring the integrity of food, pharmaceuticals, and other temperature-sensitive commodities. The cover story, “Strengthening India’s Cold Chain for Peak Summer Demand,” dissects how our infrastructure is holding up in the face of climate extremes, featuring insights from industry veterans who explore insulation innovations, policy needs, and last-mile refrigeration upgrades.

Complementing this domestic spotlight is the special feature, “Trump’s Tariff Trigger Turbulence: Tracking The Shifts In Air Cargo.” The story unpacks the cascading effect of the new tariff structures by the Trump administration on global air freight. Readers are taken into the nerve centres of air cargo planning, where volatility is the new norm and recalibration is the keyword.

In the regional section, the magazine turns its lens to Varanasi—India’s ancient spiritual capital—now reimagining itself as a modern logistics node. With increasing multimodal linkages and its strategic location along the Ganga, Varanasi is emerging as an unexpected yet formidable logistics powerhouse.

The interview segment features three distinct voices across sectors:

• Devidas Ganage (Brilliant Polymers) calls for a slowdown to rethink what true efficiency means.
• Shiko Ghosh (Exxaro Tiles Ltd.) speaks on the fusion of innovation and sustainability driving India’s tile exports.
• Vinod Agrawal (Wonder Cement) shares pragmatic approaches to cement logistics in a dynamic market.

Other enriching reads include:

• A case study examining real-world supply chain resilience models,
• An EXIM Vidya feature providing cross-border trade intelligence,
• And Logistics Mirror, a sharp look at the turbulence in global transshipment routes—where once-neutral hubs are now entangled in trade wars and climate mandates.

Together, this issue is a temperature check—both literal and metaphorical—on the logistics sector’s preparedness for a season marked by heat, volatility, and transformation.