Abstract
Common transportation policy (CTP) is among the oldest policies of the European Union (EU). Although, no common logistic policy has been introduced so far, it is ironic, because transportation is one of the main constituents of logistics which is regarded as the millennium’s rising value. This does not mean that the European community does not care about logistics. Many companies, located in Europe, have conducted many comprehensive, sophisticated and developed logistic activities. The EU ports, which ranked at the highest levels in the world, recently leave their positions to the Asian ports. Besides that, traffic jams in main arterial highways, chronic delays in airways also force the European countries to move in coordination. The community can neither solve the existing mainly economic and fiscal problems nor be successful in any of the existing common policies without developing efficient logistic polices. The EU cannot be successful in the global competitive race, without common logistics strategies, as well. The requirement forcommon logistic policy has become more definite and imperative. The EU should transform its common transport policy to common logistics policy without any delay since this is the only way out for the EU. Key words: Common logistics policy, logistics, transportation, common transport policy, outsourcing.
Highlights
The European Union (EU) has started to develop a series of common policies just after its foundation on the legal base of primary legislation
The EU ports, which ranked at the highest levels in the world, recently leave their positions to the Asian ports
The EU has not developed a policy at the Community level, common transport policy was formed at the same time when the Community was established
Summary
The EU has started to develop a series of common policies just after its foundation on the legal base of primary legislation. The common policies are to be in line with the mutual interests of the members and produced as needed to meet the major challenges, in order to take scale advantage. The creation of single market was prior in the early years of the Community. The community decision makers focused on transportation issue and launched the CTP to make Europe's transport systems more efficient. Logistics was thrown backwards, the EU has not produced a common policy to deal with logistic purely. According to a survey in literature, it is determined that the studies on the EU logistic activities are rare. This study, as different from the others, focuses mainly on logistic policies of the EU, while trying to analyze the CTP. The EU/pol/index_en.htm). 2 Sometimes is called the 'internal market'. (Border-free Europe (single market, http://europa.eu/pol/singl/index_en.htm)
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