The effectd of foreign trade to development of logistics services in Turkey

Given the increasing competition conditions and free movement of goods, services, labor and information, firms determine value creating strategies in order to gain competitive advantage. Under such an environment, firms who are able to manage supply chain and logistic activities more efficient and productive than the other competitors provide an advantage. Various economic interrelationships that individuals and states are perpetually in with each other have added new dimensions to international trade. Foreign trade, carried out as import in terms of buyer and as export in terms of seller, has linked continents and brings buyers and sellers from different locations together on the same stage. As a result of current developments emerged in logistics industry in the recent years, logistics phenomenon in Turkey has improved and become effective on transportation systems. In existing study, foreign trade effects developed within logistics phenomenon in Turkey are examined. Keywords: Logistics, Logistics services, foreign trade