The Effect of Inland Transport in Logistics Performnce: In Case of Yahiya Said Omer and Sons Export Company
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2021-10
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Addis Ababa University
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The persistence of this researcher was to study the effect of inland transport on logistics performance.
Inland transport has an impact on the logistics performance of the country. The researcher tries to identify the impact of inland transportation in logistics performance (logistics differentiation, efficiency, and effectiveness); and to analyze the association between inland transportation and logistics performance. The explanatory research design was employed with the mixed technique. A total of 80 questionnaires were distributed and all 80 were returned for analysis. Interview questions were prepared for the company transport head & to the company owner. The impact of inland transportation was studied using explanatory and descriptive techniques. The output weakness observed in areas of the overall quality of transportation, transportation cost, and human and non-human factors affecting the performance of inland transportation has been explained briefly. From the result of the analysis, it is concluded that there is a strong causal relationship between inland transportation and logistics performance. From the finding, it was recommended that increase transportation performance (by providing safe and secure movement of personals and materials, fast travel time, and finical/economical management) is better for the export company to improve the logistics performance. Because most of logistics function is inland transportation dependent.
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Logistics, Transportation, Inland transport