Logistics Will Drive Saudi Arabia's Post-Oil Era

摘要

Saudi Arabia is relatively new to the highly competitive game of logistics. But the country has some natural attributes that could help it compete with the top players in the region. For example, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or KSA, is the largest economy in the Arabian Peninsula, Levant, and Iraq region—accounting for 38 percent of GDP and 21 percent of the population. It has a central location, which is optimal for distribution to the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and East Africa. And Saudi Arabia resides directly on the Asia-to-Europe trade route, through which 12 percent of container trade moves annually (Fig. 1).