Logistics UK seeks Rising Star of the Year: entries for Logistics Awards 2025 close soon
Thursday 26 June 2025
Entries are open for Logistics UK’s prestigious Logistics Awards 2025, which are returning for their ninth year, but with a deadline of 5pm on 4 July 2025 there is no time to lose in making submissions and nominations. The winners will be announced at a glittering awards reception and celebratory gala dinner held at the Park Plaza Hotel overlooking the River Thames in London on 11 December 2025.
To showcase the incredible talent working in the sector, the Rising Star of the Year Award has been enhanced for 2025 and the strongest nominees will be featured in a special Logistics Magazine skills supplement to be published in September. The award judges will then shortlist the top five individuals, with the overall winner announced at the Logistics Awards in December.
Logistics UK Acting Chief Executive Kevin Green said, “People are the lifeblood of our sector, and the next generation of professionals deserve to be recognised for the fantastic jobs they are doing. The Logistics Awards, and the Rising Star of the Year award in particular, help achieve this and show the broad variety of roles and incredible employers within the logistics sector. I am sure that all the Rising Star nominees will go on to have unbelievable careers.”
Individuals are invited to nominate professionals from any field of logistics who excel in their roles and are destined for success – the only criterion is that they must have fewer than five years’ experience in the sector.
The 2024 Rising Star of the Year Award winner, Benz Sirikorn Mecasuwandamrong of leading supply chain solutions provider Ligentia, says: “I would urge anyone who is considering nominating someone to do it. While it was an honour for me to win the Rising Star Award last year, being nominated was just as important as it shows your efforts are valued. Winning the award has fuelled my passion even further to keep learning, growing, making meaningful contributions to the industry, and collaborating with others to shape the future of supply chain and logistics.”
The 2025 Logistics Awards also include two new categories - Warehousing Business of the Year and Safety in Logistics Initiative of the Year - and the full list of categories is:
- Rising Star of the Year (Individual) – enhanced award for 2025
- International Logistics Business of the Year
- Public Services Operator of the Year
- Most Innovative Company of the Year
- Freight by Water Business of the Year
- Decarbonisation Initiative of the Year
- Logistics Technology Provider of the Year
- Van Business of the Year
- Logistics Partner of the Year
- Air Freight Business of the Year
- Diversity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year
- Rail Freight Business of the Year
- Warehousing Business of the Year (new award for 2025)
- Last Mile Delivery Business of the Year
- Most Innovative Product of the Year
- Safety in Logistics Initiative of the Year (new award for 2025)
- Logistics Leader of the Year (Individual)
- Road Transport Operator of the Year
The awards are sponsored by Brigade Electronics, Close Brothers, Howard Tenens Logistics, Logistics UK Recovery Service, Port of Dover and Wise. Companies and individuals can enter the awards free of charge here: https://logistics.org.uk/logistics25
Logistics UK is one of the UK’s biggest business groups, representing logistics businesses which are vital to keeping the UK trading, and more than seven million people directly employed in the making, selling and moving of goods. With decarbonisation, Brexit, new technology and other disruptive forces driving change in the way goods move across borders and through the supply chain, logistics has never been more important to UK plc. Logistics UK supports, shapes and stands up for safe and efficient logistics, and is the only business group which represents the whole industry, with members from the road, rail, water and air industries, as well as the buyers of freight services such as retailers and manufacturers whose businesses depend on the efficient movement of goods. For more information about the organisation and its work, please visit logistics.org.uk
