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Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Operations: Risks, Rebuck, and Resilience

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 285

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Al Ansari

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Operations Management Faculty, Albers School of Business & Economics, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USA
Interests: sustainability in operations; just-in-time purchasing; supplier selection; lean manufacturing
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Dr. Batoul Modarress-Fathi

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Logistics and Supply Chain Management, School of Business, The University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, VI, USA
Interests: sustainability in logistics; transportation modes; supply-chain operations; quality; six sigma

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, whose aim is to provide in-depth insights into logistics and supply chain operations. This Special Issue will focus on the risks, challenges, and vulnerabilities associated with logistics and supply chain resilience. Additionally, it will present leadership strategies for enhancing resilience in logistics and supply chain management, thereby ensuring continuity of operations.

In the 21st century, nations are struggling with fragmented supply chains amid growing unpredictability in meeting their national needs. This century has introduced significant challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by a wave of political upheaval that has disrupted decades of meticulously established logistics and supply chains. Disruptions persisted into 2023 and 2024, impacting over 90% of goods transported via maritime routes (Global Guardian, 2024). The Panama Canal's susceptibility to extreme weather, along with forty attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, has sent shockwaves through the logistics industry.

These incidents have necessitated the rerouting of maritime transportation from the Suez Canal to the Cape of Good Hope, resulting in shipment delays of 9 to 17 days and a USD 400 million increase in trade costs per hour. Adding to these challenges, the competitive trade landscape in 2025 features trade barriers and new regulations that demand strict compliance in logistics and supply chains. This situation has revealed vulnerabilities and highlights the fragility of the world’s interconnected logistics systems. Addressing these issues has become a top priority for leaders worldwide.

For this Special Issue, manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering. Once you are registered, please proceed to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted before the provided deadline. All submissions that pass pre-checks are peer-reviewed (single-blind). Once accepted, the papers will be listed together on this Special Issue’s website. Research articles, review articles, and short communications are invited for submission. For planned papers, a title and a brief abstract (approximately 100 words) can be submitted to the Editorial Office for an announcement on the website.

Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or considered for publication elsewhere (excluding conference proceedings papers). A guide for authors, along with other relevant information regarding manuscript submission, is available on the “Instructions for Authors” page. Sustainability is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by MDPI that is released semi-monthly.

The deadline for this Special Issue is 8 months after a corresponding announcement appears online. The deadline is subject to minor adjustments based on requests.

The authors can submit original research, literature review, commentary, case studies, etc., related to the following categories:

  1. Review of logistics and supply chain resilience—infrastructure; operations; technical, financial, and market shares; and human resources.
  2. Logistics and supply chain mapping.
  3. Logistics and supply chain challenges and risks (internal and external risks).
  4. Risk management—identifying, assessing, strategic planning, and mitigating.
  5. Logistics and supply chain leadership for resiliency, agility, responsiveness, and sustainability.
  6. Logistics and supply chain analytical models.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Prof. Dr. Al Ansari
Dr. Batoul Modarress-Fathi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • logistics
  • supply chain
  • resilience
  • sustainability
  • risks
  • challenges
  • models
  • leadership

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Logistics Performance and the Three Pillars of ESG: A Detailed Causal and Predictive Investigation
by Nicola Magaletti, Valeria Notarnicola, Mauro Di Molfetta, Stefano Mariani and Angelo Leogrande
Sustainability 2025, 17(24), 11370; https://doi.org/10.3390/su172411370 - 18 Dec 2025
Abstract
This study investigates the complex relationship between the performance of logistics and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance, drawing upon the multi-methodological framework of combining econometrics with state-of-the-art machine learning approaches. Employing Instrumental Variable (IV) Panel data regressions, viz., 2SLS and G2SLS, with [...] Read more.
This study investigates the complex relationship between the performance of logistics and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance, drawing upon the multi-methodological framework of combining econometrics with state-of-the-art machine learning approaches. Employing Instrumental Variable (IV) Panel data regressions, viz., 2SLS and G2SLS, with data from a balanced panel of 163 countries covering the period from 2007 to 2023, the research thoroughly investigates how the performance of the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) is correlated with a variety of ESG indicators. To enrich the analysis, machine learning models—models based upon regression, viz., Random Forest, k-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machines, Boosting Regression, Decision Tree Regression, and Linear Regressions, and clustering, viz., Density-Based, Neighborhood-Based, and Hierarchical clustering, Fuzzy c-Means, Model-Based, and Random Forest—were applied to uncover unknown structures and predict the behavior of LPI. Empirical evidence suggests that higher improvements in the performance of logistics are systematically correlated with nascent developments in all three dimensions of the environment (E), social (S), and governance (G). The evidence from econometrics suggests that higher LPI goes with environmental trade-offs such as higher emissions of greenhouse gases but cleaner air and usage of resources. On the S dimension, better performance in terms of logistics is correlated with better education performance and reducing child labor, but also demonstrates potential problems such as social imbalances. For G, better governance of logistics goes with better governance, voice and public participation, science productivity, and rule of law. Through both regression and cluster methods, each of the respective parts of ESG were analyzed in isolation, allowing us to study in-depth how the infrastructure of logistics is interacting with sustainability research goals. Overall, the study emphasizes that while modernization is facilitated by the performance of the infrastructure of logistics, this must go hand in hand with policy intervention to make it socially inclusive, environmentally friendly, and institutionally robust. Full article
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