An Application of Logistics Performance Index-Driven Policy Development to Turkey and Kazakhstan

The breakthrough shift in global logistics can be assessed with the help of a measure that characterizes the country’s logistics performance. The goal of study is to create a logistics performance improvement roadmap for Kazakhstan and Turkey. In spite of large-scale investments in infrastructure and the developing transportation infrastructure in Turkey, it could not reach the place it deserves in the LPI ranking. Similarly, Kazakhstan aims to rank higher on the LPI scale. Even though, the huge infrastructure investment and improved service quality years by years in the logistics sectors as well in these countries, Turkey and Kazakhstan were countries that lag far behind the best logistics performers. To specify the pathways whereby the country can move up its logistics performance index (LPI) rank, the effect of the core LPI components (“customs,” “infrastructure,” “international shipments,” “logistics competence and quality,” “tracking and tracing,” “timeliness”) on the overall LPI score was measured.