Özet:

In the globalized world market, the developments in the trade and industry are of great importance in order to ensure the country’s economic growth. The liberalization of trade has positively influenced the course of international trade in general. As a result of the international trade becoming a competitive element between countries and companies, logistics is also attracting attention. In line with these developments, the logistics sector is gaining a strategic dimension in order for international trade to be in the desired dimensions and sustainable, and it plays the role of a lift in the economy. The logistics sector is among the sectors that highlight the impact it has on the country’s economy on investments, employment and national income issues and the development it shows thanks to globalized trade networks. Companies and countries, in particular, aimed at increasing their competitiveness, are making serious investments in the development of the sector and have great expectations on the potential revenue of the sector. As a result of the investments and expectations made, the industries carrying out production activities are more influenced by the logistics variables. On the other hand, investment in logistics also directly affects the business formations of or countries and is a means to increase their trading volumes. The importance of logistics for enterprises and countries is also developing from day to day for the international trade that the countries carry out and reaches a point that is impossible to give up. The importance of logistics for countries can be varied in terms of the geography that the countries exist and the logistics possibilities they have. It is observed that countries on the sea coast and thus able to efficiently carry out the logistics flow have gained greater in international trade. On the other hand, it can also be said that the countries that exist in the same region are similar economically and commercially. In this scope, the work in the logistics activities has a common point and economic similarity to each other. The impact of the logistics sector on the economy of 15 countries on the Mediterranean coast in order to study the economic dimensions of the countries and the impact of the logistics activities on the economic dimensions of the relevant countries the impact of the logistics sector on the economy of the 15 countries for the period 1980 - 2018 was studied using panel data analysis with the logistics performance index for the period 1980 - 2018 and non-clean domestic value. The study found that the analysis of 2007, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016 results showed a positive relationship at a medium level and that 32% of changes in the non-clean domestic economy could be explained by the logistics performance index. On the other hand, countries-based analyses have achieved the highest relationship between the logistics performance index for Turkey and Albania and the non-clean domestic stock. The change in the non-clean domestic values of Turkey and Albania countries is explained by a high logistics performance index. This is the point of the importance of the logistics activities in the economic size of the two countries. It has also been found that countries may have a higher level of non-clean domestic authority among the activities that make up the logistics performance index if they intensely emphasize the "infrastructure" and "customs" activities.

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