Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.EXPD
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Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. Status update
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- Onyx provides advisory services across supply chain areas including planning, strategy, trade, compliance, sourcing, and manufacturing.
- AI capital expenditure (CapEx) by major data companies is projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2029, with AI contributing about 1.5 to 2% of US GDP and 50% of growth in net imports.
- Hyperscaler CapEx plans are expected to grow at 28% annually from 2025 to 2030 after a 114% growth from 2020 to 2025, mostly focused on AI inferencing infrastructure.
- Significant supply chain concentration exists in five countries: Taiwan (90% of sub-5nm logic chips by TSMC), Netherlands (ASML EUV lithography), Japan (50% of silicon wafers), South Korea (high bandwidth memory by SK Hynix and Samsung), and China (dominates critical minerals refining).
- Data center power demand is projected to surpass heavy industry by 2030, with highest demand in the US, China, and Europe; Southeast Asia demand is expected to more than double, driven by hubs in Singapore and southern Malaysia.
- AI supply chains face bottlenecks in power supply, high bandwidth memory chips, and assembly packaging, causing delivery lags.
- China implemented export controls on critical minerals in October 2025, with a pause expected to expire soon; the upcoming US-China summit is critical for potential extension of this pause.
- AI-related air cargo accounts for about 7-8% of global volume and 40-50% of value; ocean and trucking volumes related to AI are under 1%.
- Three AI development scenarios were presented: fast build (best case), slow build (base case), and pullback (worst case), each with distinct economic and logistics impacts.
- In the best case, US GDP growth could increase by approximately 0.6 percentage points annually over the next decade, with strong freight demand especially for heavy oversized ocean cargo.
- The worst case could involve a 50% reduction in AI CapEx, potentially causing a recession and significant declines in air and ocean freight volumes.
- Air freight is most sensitive to AI CapEx changes, with potential volume drops from 7% to 3.5% in a worst-case scenario.
- Ports with largest AI-related import volumes currently include San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Chicago, with potential future growth in rust belt and southeast US regions.
- AI infrastructure build-out may be stabilized if government-backed, treating frontier AI models as public goods, with examples including the UK’s £1.1 billion AI supercomputer initiative.
- Diversification of critical mineral sourcing outside China is limited due to long lead times and China's refining dominance, though some workarounds and stockpiling efforts exist.
- Power supply remains a key constraint in all scenarios, with data center siting increasingly dependent on power availability rather than demand.
- AI CapEx growth is driving tightness and upward pressure on air and cross-border trucking capacity and rates.
- Domestic policies, such as data center moratoriums in Malaysia, pose additional risks to AI supply chain expansion.
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