A glance at the World Bank’s 2018 biennial assessment of the state of the global logistics industry shows that South Africa does not lag the world stage too greatly in this regard, although our ranking on the Logistics Competence Index (LCI) shows we are losing traction since 2017/2018 compared with the aggregate mean score over the immediate four assessment periods.
At position 33 on the list, South Africa is ahead of fellow BRICS partner states, Brazil, Russia and India, but slightly lags China.