The National Competitiveness Institute, in collaboration with INTEC university and the IDB presented the First National Logistics Report. The report is part of efforts to turn the country into the logistic hub of the Central American and Caribbean region.
The findings are of a positive evolution of the objectives proposed in the National Development Strategy 2030 (END) development strategies and the National Freight Logistics Plan (PnLog).
The report is an initiative of the National Competitiveness Council (CNC) with technical cooperation from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and consulting from the National Logistics and Freight Transport Observatory of the Dominican Republic (ONLT-RD) of the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC).
The first report recommends that educational institutions at the technical and higher education levels promote training programs to provide the country with specialists in supply chains, exports and imports, and warehousing and distribution, among other recommendations
The executive director of the National Competitiveness Council, Peter Prazmowski; the rector of INTEC, Julio Sánchez Maríñez, and Katharina B. Falkner-Olmedo, representative of the IDB Group made the presentation. The report was read by Luis Toirac, coordinator of the National Logistics and Freight Transport Observatory of the Dominican Republic. Alexander Schad and Cristyan Peralta, as part of the National Trade Facilitation Committee, also participated.
INTEC’s National Logistics and Freight Transport Observatory is an information-gathering and analysis body in charge of contributing to the development and increase of logistics performance and competitiveness in the Dominican Republic. The report compiles country information and indicators needed for logistics and freight transport decision-making, both by the private and public sectors.
The report measures the performance of the National Trade Facilitation Committee (CNFC), helping to identify projects and initiatives that should be adopted within this committee to promote a better competitive environment.
Included in the report in the first part are indicators of the country’s logistics performance, considering international reports. A second part is made up of the results of the survey applied to the logistics sector at the national level, including the representation of companies throughout the supply chain.
For the survey, data was taken from the National Statistics Office (ONE) and a questionnaire was applied to the members and executors of activities in the logistics sector, including large, medium, small and micro companies and organizations, which allowed for the collection of detailed information about the perspective of specialists in the area.
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Presidency
17 February 2022