The Role of Logistics Centres in the Region Development

Journal Title: Logistics and Transport - Year 2016, Vol 31, Issue 3

Abstract

The article focuses on the role of logistic centers in the environment of economic regionalization. The discussion indicates that logistics centers built in a particular area, create a specific economic climate which allows to consider them as a regional product. As a result, logistic centers with appropriate infrastructure of transfer would gain extra points for the change of the means of transport. Great needs of the country create a huge demand for the development of logistic centers, which in turn contributes to the development of a region. As they constitute a driving force of a country, the location of the new centers as well as upgrading and expansion of the existing ones, is very important.

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Katarzyna Witczyńska

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Katarzyna Witczyńska (2016). The Role of Logistics Centres in the Region Development. Logistics and Transport, 31(3), 37-44. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-492859