Logistics industry key to success of government’s levelling up agenda, report finds

The UK logistics industry is one of the fastest growing areas of employment in the UK, bringing career opportunities to deprived areas targeted by the government’s levelling up agenda, according to an independent study by Frontier Economics. The study, commissioned by Amazon and supported by Logistics UK, found that the sector has grown by 190,000 employees since 2019 and created a further 125,000 jobs in local communities. Employment in logistics has doubled since 2012 and is on track to overtake […]