Russian Logistics Service Market: Problems And Development Trends

Abstract

The logistics service market is one of the priority areas of the domestic economy development. Globalization of world commodity markets leads to increased demand for transport and logistics services and develops new methods of reducing the cost of transporting products. The relevance of the logistics service market development is due to the activities of logistics providers in the context of globalization of the global economy and the increasing role of international organizations signing free trade zones. The volume of world exports in 2018 amounted to 19.228 trillion. dollars and grew by 8.5 % compared to 2017 (17.727 trillion dollars), and the volume of GDP of all countries in the world reached 125.2 trillion. dollars, which indicates that exported goods account for 14.2 % of global GDP. Despite the enormous potential and demand, the Russian logistics services market is developing slowly. It depends on issues such as the costs of implementing digital technologies and logistics innovations, insufficient information flow for the efficiency of logistics processes, and the training of qualified personnel for the logistics business. We believe that one of the effective directions of the development of the logistics service market is logistics outsourcing, which is the process of transferring business processes – transportation, warehousing – to third parties using third-party resources. To provide logistics outsourcing services in the logistics service market, it is necessary to have logistics providers, which are classified according to the range of logistics services provided: 1PL-operator, 2PL-operator, 3PL-operator, 4PL-operator, 5PL-operator.