ABSTRACT

Under increasing pressure of globalization, business functions such as supply, production and marketing which are items of value chain, have spreaded across the world as a spatial scale and co-ordination between these functions has increased the importance of logistics further day by day. As a result of this, logistic costs have created a large amount of costs over total cost as one of cost items in business, have reached 5-10% part of GNP expenditures in developed countries and 30% part in developing countries. Freight villages are considered to be centers give opportunities to carry out activities from one center in coordination. This paper deals with effects of new-established freight villages on business in our country in terms of logistic costs and also cost advantages they provide for enterprises. In this study, after analyzing the literature related with freight villages and logistic costs, depending on data during face to face meetings with authorised persons in Ankara Logistic Site Inc. advantages of logistic costs are revealed for enterprises by operating freight villages.