Competing with Logistics Clusters : Vignettes from the International Experience
Logistics clusters boost logistics efficiency. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought about a common global threat of historic proportions and yielded critical lessons as to the importance of supply chain resilience-from essential...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099350007132244079/P1723050138e860df089bf048b28077799e http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37703 |
| Summary: | Logistics clusters boost logistics
efficiency. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
brought about a common global threat of historic proportions
and yielded critical lessons as to the importance of supply
chain resilience-from essential medical supplies to consumer
goods in responding to such a challenge. Today the world
increasingly recognizes the value of adaptive infrastructure
and service delivery platforms, often collaborative in
nature, to face the “certainty of uncertain situations” at
all levels of the value chain. Logistics clusters are at the
core of positioning transportation and logistics as a driver
of productivity gains, environmental sustainability,
resilience, and economic growth. This report contributes to
informing decision making, particularly in low- and
middle-income countries, to deploy logistics clusters to
underpin international and domestic commerce, employment
growth, and investment. It provides a practical,
action-oriented source of examples relying on the case study
approach. Particularly important is the report’s role as a
tool to inform decision making to position logistics not as
a source of environmental externalities to avoid, but as an
indispensable contributor to the decarbonization and
resilience plans increasingly adopted in the context of the
Paris Agreement or as a matter of basic economic
development. The structure of the report is as follows: An
opening chapter presents definitional and conceptual issues
related to logistics clusters. The report will then present,
in turn, the case studies of the Netherlands, Germany, the
United States, and Korea. Lessons will be drawn from these
cases in separate chapters. Lastly, the report will propose
a list of policy questions, derived from the World Bank’s
cross-country experience, and attempt to answer them based
on the evidence presented in the preceding chapters. |
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