In two years, between 2010 and 2012, Portugal went up six places at the LPI Logistics Performance Index) of the World Bank, occupying now the 28th place.
According to the data just divulged, Portugal obtained in 2012 a global score of 3.5 points, corresponding to 80.1% of the punctuation of the Index leader, which has become Singapore, exchanging places with Germany.
In 2012, Portugal obtained 3.34 points (75% of the result achieved by the Asian city-state).
LPI is elaborated by the World Bank based on the answers of enquiries realized close by the logistic operators worldwide. The scope is to measure “on the field” the logistic capacity of each country, considering facts like customs legal procedures, the quality of the infra-structures or the possibility of cargo track and trace in real-time.
LPI is divulged each two years, since 2007. The 2012 edition comprises 155 countries.