Connecting to Compete 2016

The LPI has provided valuable
information for policy makers, traders, and other
stakeholders, including researchers and academics, on the
role of logistics for growth and the policies needed to
support logistics in areas such as infrastructure planning,
service provision, and crossborder trade and transport
facilitation. The results of Connecting to Compete 2016
point to Germany as the best performing country, with an LPI
score of 4.23, and Syria as the lowest, with a score of 1.60
(equivalent to 19 percent of Germany’s score on a scale from
1 to 5). The converging trend between the top and worst
performers that appeared in the previous LPI surveys (2007,
2010, 2012, and 2014) seems to have slightly reversed. The
average scores in each quintile reveal that the gap between
the top 2 quintiles and the countries at the bottom in
performance is widening again.