TEHRAN – Iran’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) has jumped 32 places in 2018 to 64th compared to 96th in 2016, according to the World Bank’s “International LPI Global Ranking 2018” report.

The country’s LPI score stood at 2.8 in 2018, an increase of 0.2 compared to 2.6 in 2016, the report said.

Iran’s LPI had also jumped 18 places in 2016 to 96th compared to 114th in 2014.

The LPI is an interactive benchmarking tool created to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in their performance on trade logistics and what they can do to improve their performance.

The World Bank conducts the LPI survey every two years. The LPI 2018 allows for comparisons across 160 countries.

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