The World Bank produced a report that evaluates the Logistics Performance Index and Uruguay rose 24 places this 2023 compared to its place in 2018, the last time it had been published, reported from the National Ports Administration (ANP). Out of 139 countries, Uruguay arrived to position 61 –shared with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Indonesia and Peru– since 85.
Weeks agohe world Bank had released the World Container Port Performance Index for 2022. There the port of Montevideo did not have a good location taking into account the parameters used by the World Bank to establish the world ranking. ended in the lplace 304 of 348 terminals and fell 39 places compared to the list corresponding to 2021.
Logistics Performance Index
The Logistics Performance Index is based in a survey conducted by the World Bank. The results are an indicator of lThe ability of countries to transport goods across borders quickly and reliably.
The first place was held by Singapore, followed by Finland, and by four in third place: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
As explained by the World Bank authorities in the presentation of the report, it measures the ease of establish reliable links in the supply chain and the structural factors that allow it to be doneas well as the quality of logistics services, infrastructure related to trade and transport, and lborder controls.
According to the ANP, Uruguay’s growth was due, among other things, to improvements in port infrastructure and customs efficiency.
The sub indicators of the report consider the availability, capacity and state of the infrastructures. In the case of Uruguay, highways, ports and airports constitute the infrastructure to be assessed together with the efficiency of customs clearance processes, pointed out.
On the other hand, the maritime level connectivity indicator takes into account the time of a container in port, consolidation and deconsolidation of cargoand response to container ships that call.
Uruguay’s goal is to continue lowering the times in portand thus facilitate the documentation of entry and exit of loads, to speed up the processes.
To this end, the ANP is in bidding process to install access control software in the Port of Montevideoa Monitoring Center that will have automated scaless, closed surveillance circuits, information screens for carriers and drivers, which, they assure, It will contribute to reducing the times of the logistics chains of the load.
