Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the rankings of Belt Road countries in terms of Logistics Performance Index (LPI) score and Environmental Performance Index (EPI) score. In the research, the performance evaluations of the countries that handle five hundred thousand TEU containers annually within the scope of the Belt Road project in 2014, 2016 and 2018 were made. Performance of Belt and Road countries will be evaluated through integrated Entropy-TOPSIS methods. As a result of the study, it was determined that Portugal, Slovenia, Italy, Singapore, Greece, Israel, Russia, Malaysia, Jordan and Romania were successful countries in performance evaluation due to their high LPI and EPI scores. Kuwait, Egypt, Malaysia, Jordan, Turkey, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Philippines in the LPI and EPI performance evaluation scores in the intermediate level has been moderate due to the successful countries. China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Kenya, Myanmar and Pakistan were the least successful countries in performance evaluation due to low LPI and EPI scores.

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