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There is not a consensus about a complete set of explanatory variables that could
ultimately explain the linkages behind achieving economic development. In spite of
this, determinants of economic development and especially the linkages between
economic development and logistics performance are topics of growing interest within
the recent literature, both in economic growth theory and maritime studies.

Los últimos años han sido de grandes y rápidos crecimientos en las operativas
de las industrias portuarias y del transporte marítimo, y la globalización
de los intercambios y relaciones económicas ha traído consigo un intenso proceso
de contenerización. Estas transformaciones significaron una buena prueba
para medir la constitución y asentamiento de las redes comerciales de los
puertos en el ámbito global.

La globalización ha dado lugar a que las economías con mejor logística
puedan crecer más rápido, ser más competitivas y tiendan a incrementar su inversión.
Todo ello, conduce a considerar que el desempeño logístico es uno de
los factores claves del comercio internacional. El objetivo del artículo es analizar
los determinantes de las exportaciones de la Unión Europea (UE), donde
la importancia de la logística es fundamental para su desarrollo internacional.

The main goal of this study is to determine the effects of socio-economic,
demographic and land-use factors on long-distance travel. Intercity trips are
not very frequent activities, which caused a large share of the survey respondents
to report zero kilometres travelled. The Double Hurdle Model, Infrequent
Purchase Model and Heckman Selection Models are estimated. Distance travelled
in trips longer than 50 km. is a function of gender, age, income, size of

This paper analyses the technical efficiency of European road freight transport
companies over the period 2004-2012. The results show that road freight
companies that use logistic platforms appropriately are more efficient. Other
interesting results were also obtained showing that the liberalisation of transport
sectors, inventory management and the use of Information and Communications
Technology all lead to improvements in companies’ technical efficiency.