*Oil and Gas logistics: AILES GROUP lays the benchmark* By ASU BEKS
Recent reports from the World Bank indicate an unprecedented boom in the global logistics and freight market. It is projected that the current freight and logistics chain which will hit about $18.69 billion in 2026 will leap by 4.4 per cent to an all time high of $6.5 trillion in 2027. But how are the developing nations catching in on this boom?
The 2023 Logistics Performance Index (LPI) which is the benchmarking tool for helping countries identify challenges and opportunities they face in their performance on trade and logistics and what they can do to improve their performance recently undertook a study of no fewer than 139 countries. The study was to appraise the speeds at which individual nations moved. But sadly, the result of the study did not offer any cheery news for develop...