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 Timeliness : refers to the exact time of shipment delivery. It is important to consider
this factor because due to the high degree of existing competition, not meeting the
established times is unacceptable.
Figure 40: Republic of Uganda Logistics Performance Index score
Source: World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index
According to the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI), an indicator of trade
facilitation, Republic of Uganda has a big decrease of the LPI performances comparing its 2016
rank 58th versus its 2018 rank 102nd.
4.3.1.3 World Bank Doing Business – Trading Across Border
The ranking of economies based on the ease of trading across borders determined by sorting
their distance to frontier scores. The “frontier” defined by the best performance observed on
each Doing Business topic across all economies and years since 2005. Trading across Borders
Rank Indicator does not include the time and cost associated with domestic transport.
The Trading across Borders indicator is one of the 11 different areas included in the Doing
Business project. The Doing Business project, launched in 2002, provides measures of business
regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies:
 The trading across borders indicator measures the time and cost associated with
the logistical process of exporting and importing goods;
 It covers three sets of procedures: Documentary compliance, Border compliance,
Domestic transport;
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