Global LPI Rankings

Logistics is the planning of freight movements for complex retail,

manufacturing or distribution of supply chains. It deals with the
coordination of inbound and outbound shipments. Depending on the type
of business, logistics can get extremely complex. Logistics can be
considered as a tool for getting resources, like products, services, and
people, where they are needed and when they are desired. It is difficult to
accomplish any marketing or manufacturing without logistical support. It
involves

the

warehousing,

integration
material

of

information,

handling,

and

transportation,

packaging.

The

inventory,
operating

responsibility of logistics is the geographical repositioning of raw

materials, work in process, and finished inventories where required at the
lowest cost possible.
The global Logistics Performance Index (LPI) rankings are based on six
factors which are:
Customs
Customs are things that have to do with culture. Customs is an authority
or agency in a country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs
duties and for controlling the flow of goods including animals, transports,
personal effects, and hazardous items in and out of a country.
Infrastructure

Infrastructure of a country refers to the less obvious supporting systems in

maintaining an economy. Examples of infrastructure systems include water
pipes supplying fresh water, sewer system, electrical system delivering to
business and homes, electrical system to street light and red lights, roads,
subway and rail systems, gas piping to homes and businesses for natural
gas, sidewalks, telephone poles, bridges across rivers and rails, highways,
canals, electrical grid, transportation systems -airway, rail stations, etc,
Along waterways banking and ports, needed fencing. The difference
between Logistics and Infrastructure is that Logistics means the method of
transferring goods from one place to another. For example, the logistics for
moving a house could mean the use of a trolley to load a removal truck,
the removal truck transferring the goods to the new address, and a cart or
trolley to take the items inside. While Infrastructure is the support services
of something. For example a citys infrastructure would include its roads,
railways etc.
International shipments
The term shipment or shipping is an extremely general term with
many meanings, however according to a few sources like Wikipedia its
most common usage is with actual ships via merchant navies. They make
up nearly 90% of international trade. In any case, "Shipment" and
"shipping" are used when transporting goods in any vehicle, though it
originally derives from transporting in boats or actual ships.