Measuring the most important factors affecting the success of different logistic zones

Abstract

Abstract Logistic zones play an important role in supporting global trade movements and supply chains; it also helps to achieve development in many countries of the world. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the most important affecting factors that must be available to establish successful logistic zones through quantitative analysis for184 variables at the global and site characteristics. These include many variables such as location, infrastructure, and political and economic situation. This analysis is done for 38 logistic zones different in type, size, and degree in several countries of the world using the statistical program SPSS to get the most important factors affecting it using principal component analysis test. The research also tries to find relationship between the site characteristic variables and national variables through the linear regression test. As a result, the variables were reduced to reach the most important variables of influence, as well as the strength of the relationship between national and site characteristic variables, which shows that the success of the logistic zones requires the integration of many related development sectors such as transport, infrastructure, information technology, laws, and commercial facilities at all levels.

Keywords

• Logistic zones
• Logistic gardens
• Logistic centers
• Dry ports
• Inland ports
• Free zones