INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT LOGISTICS AS AN ADVANCED GROWTH VECTOR OF NATIONAL ECONOMIES

Abstract

This study is topical because of the problem of rising performance of the international logistics
under the modern recession. The article aims to explore the peculiarities of the traffic system of
the Islamic Republic Iran exemplified by its oil and gas industry whose logistics is global. The
general and special scientific method applied to this study allowed to reveal the historic, political
and economic determinants of the Iran’s logistics, to single out the stages of development of its
oil and gas business, to describe the functions of the country’s transport logistics and to assess
the level of its development in Iran. The article may be useful for the future international
transport logistic studies aimed to build efficient supply chains and use competitive material,
informational and financial flow management technologies to analyse the influence of the
peculiarity of a national economy on formation of new trans-logistic platforms.