ABSTRACT

With th globalization, increasing number of industry clusters was followed byt he emergence of logistics clusters which was an outcome of the increase in the volumes of production and Foreign trade as well as the demand for the logistic sservices. The countries, intending to increase their competitive strength, utilize the establishment and encouraging of logistics clusters as a statepolicy. In our country, the Ankara Logistics Base is the first established logistics cluster; it wa sfounded in 2004 by only the private sector, as there is not a legal regulation, supportor an incentive System for logistics clusters in the country. In this study, by conducting the respective Literature survey, the cases of Singapore logistics cluster and the Ankara Logistics Base are compared and an interview was made with the Administrative Unit of the Ankara Logistics Base to assess the position of the Base within the value chain and a survey was made with a total of 16 transportation, storageanddistributioncompanies, 15 of whichwerelocated inside the Base and 1 outside. Furthermore, the cluster schema of the Base is created by making a research to answer the questions whether the Base is a logistics cluster, whether it has been established in a plan in the process, whether it is a sub-cluster of a larger one in terms of the value chain or a logistics cluster on its own, what the service leve land scale of the Base is in terms of spatial distribution as well as who there late dactors are. As the result, the Ankara Logistics Base is expected to be a model for the logistics clusters, to be established in our country.