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Figure 2: 2018 LPI scores and The Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 2018 Rankings of the OIC
countries
Source: Author from the World Bank World Development Indicators and World Economic Forum (2018)
Another measure is the World Bank’s Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (LSCI) which aims at
capturing a country's level of integration into the existing liner shipping network. As can be seen
in Table 4, the 2018 LSCI scores show that Malaysia (109.86), UAE (83.91), Morocco (71.5), and
Egypt (70.28) are well connected to the global shipping network whereas Albania (3.04), Brunei
Darussalam (5.27), and Guinea-Bissau (5.74) are least connected.
One implication of Table 4 is that the best performing countries have large transhipment ports
(e.g. Malaysia, Morocco, and Egypt) and gateway ports (e.g. Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey).
Secondly, the least performing countries are either not located on the main liner shipping
services or lack the physical and operational capacity to serve large container ships (COMCEC,
2015).
UAE
Qatar
Malaysia
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The Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 2018
Rankings
LPI 2018