Özet:

With globalization, the importance of logistics activities has increased for both countries and companies. In particular, the governments have been trying to improve themselves in this area in recent years. For this reason, the World Bank has since 2007 published the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) in relation to the logistics activities of the countries. The LPI has six different subdimensions, including "customs", "substructions", "facility of arrangement", "quality of logistics services", "following and tracking" and "time awareness". The aim of the study is to compare the logistics activity between Turkey and the European Union (EU) member countries. In this study, according to six different LPIs published since 2007, the activity analysis was carried out with the data coverage analysis (VZA) and Malmquist method for Turkey and EU countries. According to the study, compared to the EU member countries, Turkey’s activity value has followed a waveway over the years. Turkey must make the necessary technical and legal arrangements in order to improve all the underdimensions of the LPI.

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