September, typical boom month for shipping, looks more like freight recession this year

An ASU supply chain expert discusses last month's Logistics Mangers' Index data, which showed the lowest reading ever recorded for the month of September.

In this story published Oct. 7, 2025, on CNBC:

This is the lowest rate of growth we have tracked for this metric since April 2024, which was the last month of the most recent freight recession.

– Dale Rogers, ON Semiconductor Professor of Business and director of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab and the Internet Edge Supply Chain Lab