Contemporary Supply Chain Trends and World’s Freight Traffic

Abstract

The paper deals with very up-to-date topic, current global world has got very dynamic character and it’s typical by frequent changes in the business markets. Gross domestic product of single countries and as well world gross domestic product are driven more or less through economies of particular countries. Each economy of advanced country is pushed forward by particular industries which have got their own supply chains. Inside those supply chains are originating huge material, financial and information flows which must be planned and managed to reach required competitiveness and to minimize negative impacts on living environment. Logistics is a science having developed methods and approaches to plan and manage those huge flows and thereby also world’s freight traffic. It also develops new methodologies within the scope of supply chain management thereby it considerably contributes to enhance world gross domestic product.