Singapore advocates green logistics

• Singapore links future competitiveness to flexibility, cooperation and sustainability
• Alvin Tan urges logistics leaders to prepare for disruption and opportunity
• ASEAN gains from global manufacturing transformations under China plus one strategy

As Southeast Asia strengthens its role at the center of the global supply chain realignment, Singapore has issued a clear message that the region’s future competitiveness depends on resilience, cooperation and sustainability. At the opening of the Southeast Asia Air Freight and Logistics Conference 2025 in Singapore, Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan urged logistics leaders to prepare for a decade of disruption and opportunity.

“We live in an era of multiple, overlapping weather systems,” Tan said, describing pressures from geopolitical tensions, trade fragmentation, and climate risks.

“We must upgrade our ships and planes to weather the storms ahead – bigger, smarter and greener.”

Tan highlighted how Southeast Asia will benefit from the continuing diversification of global manufacturing. “Global companies are increasingly adopting the China plus one strategy, and ASEAN has become an attractive alternative,” he said.

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