International Logistics Infrastructure

From Supply Chain Management Encyclopedia

Infrastructure is an umbrella term that refers to all of the elements on territory (publicly or privately owned goods) to facilitate transportation, communication, and business exchanges or, from the marketing viewpoint, effective marketing exchanges. Therefore, the infrastructure has to include not only transportation and communication elements, but also the existence and quality of public utilities, banking services, and wholesale/retail distribution channels. When defining logistics, in the very general terms, as the well arranged in space and time movement of a growing value as a result of multiple coordinated and synchronized, national and international, intracorporative and intercorporative, forward and backward exchanges it makes sense to add to this set, the existence and quality of the court system, the defense of intellectual property rights, and the existence of standards. In other words, all that is underpinning the said value movement is covered by the infrasructure as the term.

When speaking about an international logistics infrastructure the have to take into account