[Logprofs] World Bank's Logistics Performance Index 2014 to be released on March 20 at 12 AM (GMT )

[Lauri Ojala]

Dear colleagues and friends: 

The World Bank's Logistics Performance Index 2014 to be released on March 20, 2014 at 12 AM (GMT ) and available at: http://lpi.worldbank.org/ 

The report, "Connecting to Compete 2014: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy", ranks 160 countries on a number of dimensions of trade -- including customs performance, infrastructure quality, and timeliness of shipments -- that have increasingly been recognized as important to development. 

The data comes from a survey of more than 1,000 logistics professionals. The World Bank Group's International Trade Unit has produced the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) about every two years since 2007.

The report also has a list of 166 countries based on the aggregated data from all four LPI editions, thus reducing the variation of an individual countries' scores and ranks.

With the best regards


Mr. Lauri Ojala
Professor of Logistics
Operations & Supply Chain Management
Turku School of Economics
FIN-20114 Turun yliopisto
Finland
Mobile: +358 50 502 70 31
lauri.ojala at utu.fi

Co-author of World Bank's Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 
http://lpi.worldbank.org/