This study examines the relevance of Brazilian domestic transportation and logistics processes for agricultural bulk … impact of logistics and transportation on the competitiveness of soybeans in a national comparison, export processes starting … information from expert interviews. Experts belong to the transportation and logistics sector, to the sector of agricultural …

various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment in some cases. This paper focuses on logistics friction and draws … on a data set recently compiled by the World Bank with specific quantitative metrics of logistics performance in terms of … time, cost, and variability in time. It finds that the new variables that relate directly to logistics performance have a …