Improving Customs Transit Systems
In the Islamic Countries
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Figure 18: OIC MS average trade costs for landlocked and maritime countries
Source: Authors’ own compilation
3.2.3 Logistics Performance Index (LPI)
The World Bank ranks countries according to the Logistics Performance Index (LPI)77 based on
six dimensions of trade: 1) Customs performance to measure the efficiency of Customs and
border management clearance, 2) infrastructure quality to measure quality of trade and
transport infrastructure, 3) international shipments to measure the ease of arranging
competitively priced shipments, 4) logistics competence to measure the competence and quality
of logistics services—trucking, forwarding, and customs brokerage, 5) tracking and tracing to
measure the ability to track and trace consignments and 6) timeliness of shipments to measure
the frequency with which shipments reach consignees within scheduled or expected delivery
times. Figure 19 presents the World Bank’s LPI (Logistics Performance Index) scores for 51 OIC,
MS. The best performers are the UAE, Qatar, Malaysia, and Turkey, while the worst performing
countries are Afghanistan, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Libya.
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341.66%
282.57%
0% 100% 200% 300% 400%
Landlocked
Coastal