tailieunhanh - The World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI)

The World Bank’s LPI, is a comprehensive index created to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in trade logistics performance. | The World Bank s Logistics Performance Index LPI I. Definitions The World Bank s LPI is a comprehensive index created to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in trade logistics performance. The LPI assesses the performance of countries in the six areas identified below and is an equally weighted average of these six components Customs Efficiency of the customs clearance process. Infrastructure Quality of trade and transport-related infrastructure. International Shipments Ease of arranging competitively priced shipments. Logistics Competence Competence and quality of logistics services. Tracking Tracing Ability to track and trace consignments. Timeliness Frequency with which shipments reach consignee within the scheduled or expected time. II. Methodology LPI is based on a worldwide survey of multinational freight forwarders and the main express carriers. The LPI survey1 was designed and is implemented by the World Bank International Trade and Transport Departments with the support of Finland s Turku School of Economics TSE . The World Bank conducts the LPI survey every two years. The first LPI was published in November 2007. The next survey will be in 2012. It does not rank countries using a comparative approach against best-in-the-class . Each country s score is the total of the evaluation resulting from the survey. Respondent Demographics Nearly 1 000 logistics professionals from international logistics companies in 130 countries participated in the 2009 LPI survey. 69 of them participated in the 2009 LPI survey for Canada. Out of the total participants worldwide By size multinational freight forwarders-34 global express carriers-11 small and medium-size freight forwarders -55 . By knowledge senior executives-35 area country managers-25 department managers-24 . By organization level country branch offices-39 corporate regional headquarters-36 local branch offices-11 and independent firms-14 . By freight mode almost 50 of the survey .