Evidence and scope

Scope: selected original publications from 2026, checked on 27 October. Announcement dates below are distinct from this article’s publication date. Historical launch scope is retained; later expansion is not assumed. Corporate claims are attributed, and CEP Insight’s assessment follows the cases.

IPC · 2025 survey / 2026-01-13

IPC’s public release covers a September 2025 survey of 30,970 consumers across 37 countries. It supports analysis of delivery preferences and fee clarity. It is self-reported survey evidence, not global marketplace sales shares; member-only country reports were not reviewed.

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DHL × NYU Stern · 2026-03-10

The Global Connectedness Report was commissioned by DHL and authored by NYU Stern researchers. Its release describes trade, capital, information and people flows, mainly historical data. Forecasts through 2029 are projections; neither connectedness rankings nor macro flows measure individual CEP operators’ orders.

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DHL · Logistics Trend Radar 8.0 · 2026-09-24

DHL’s corporate trend research highlights agentic AI, AI commerce, compute infrastructure and humanoids. It is a framework for discussing technology maturity and governance, not evidence of complete deployment, procurement volume or return on investment across the logistics industry.

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Conclusions

CEP Insight assessment: record who commissioned and authored the work, the sample or indicator, observation period and reading scope. Use surveys for reported preferences, flow data for macro context and trend reports for hypotheses. None substitutes for a carrier’s measured performance or a customer-specific business case.

Sources and evidence scope

Read each source for its stated scope. Company announcements, observed research results, modeled findings and CEP Insight analysis support different types of conclusion.

Sources reviewed:

  1. IPC · 2025 survey / 2026-01-13
    Industry-organization public survey release; member reports not read.Published: Source reviewed:
  2. DHL × NYU Stern · 2026-03-10
    DHL-commissioned NYU Stern research: press release read, not the full report.Published: Source reviewed:
  3. DHL · Logistics Trend Radar 8.0 · 2026-09-24
    Corporate trend research; hypotheses and maturity signals, not deployment statistics.Published: Source reviewed:

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