The LPI has provided valuable information for policy makers, traders,
and other stakeholders, including researchers and academics, on the role
of logistics for growth and the policies needed to support logistics in
areas such as infrastructure planning, service provision, and
crossborder trade and transport facilitation. The results of Connecting
to Compete 2016 point to Germany as the best performing country, with an
LPI score of 4.23, and Syria as the lowest, with a score of 1.60
(equivalent to 19 percent of Germany’s score on a scale from 1 to 5).
The converging trend between the top and worst performers that appeared
in the previous LPI surveys (2007, 2010, 2012, and 2014) seems to have
slightly reversed. The average scores in each quintile reveal that the
gap between the top 2 quintiles and the countries at the bottom in
performance is widening again.