Effects of covid-19 pandemic on logistics industry: Examples from logistics companies operating in Turkey

Logistics is a young sector that is developing with increasing importance in parallel with the increasing demand for digitalization with the effect of globalization and the ever-increasing young population. Turkey is a logistics base ,because of-its position as a bridge between the Middle East and Europe. The new coronavirus epidemic, which emerged in Wuhan, China's hubei province in December 2019, affected the whole world, and this period, called the great epidemic, not only affected people's health, but also international trade came to a halt with the spread of the epidemic. In the Covid-19 pandemic process, the importance of sectors such as health and logistics has been understood more and its value in terms of accessibility in other sectors has been understood more. In this process, people created internet traffic in their daily lives. Thanks to the transition to online applications in the world conjuncture, the concept of digital transformation has been adopted and the processes have been simplified and the work has been carried out faster. Within the scope of this study, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the logistics sector were examined and the effects of the pandemic on the logistics sector, one of the logistics companies operating in Turkey, were revealed.