In a study on the “Trade Logistics in the Global Economy”, the World Bank (2014) develops and publishes every two years a global benchmark - the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) – to measure and rank countries in terms of their logistics performance. A multidimensional assessment of logistics performance compares the trade logistics profiles of 155 countries and rates them on a scale of 1 (worst) to 5 (best). The ratings are based on 6,000 individual country assessments by nearly 1,000 international freight forwarders, who rated the eight foreign countries their company serves most frequently. The LPI is unbundled into the following six components: