SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LOGISTICS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION: ECONOMIC ASPECTS

Logistics plays a leading role in economic growth, but its development may be accompanied by aggravation of environmental problems. Obtaining rapid economic benefits can lead to significant deterioration of the environment, which in the long term will worsen economic and social indicators. This makes it relevant to study the economic aspects of logistics in an inextricable link with the goals of sustainable development, which will allow for balancing the efficiency of logistics and the need to ensure sustainability and security. The work aimed to assess the impact of logistics indicators that assess infrastructure, international shipments and delivery timeliness on the economic aspects of sustainable development. The work used correlation, regression and analytical methods. The work analyzed the impact of the Logistics Performance Index sub-indices (infrastructure, international shipments and delivery timeliness) on the eighth, ninth and twelfth goals of sustainable development, which directly characterize the economic aspects of sustainability. Goal 8 was found to be directly and significantly affected by the level of infrastructure development. Goal 9 is significantly and positively affected by infrastructure development and on-time delivery. Goal 12 is strongly but inversely affected by infrastructure development. Thus, infrastructure development significantly and positively affects economic growth, employment, industrial development and innovation but may exacerbate environmental problems, as indicated by the inverse relationship between sustainable consumption and production. The results should encourage governments and companies to develop a logistics strategy that considers the maximization of economic benefits and their balancing with environmental and social goals. Further research should expand the results of this work by considering other sustainable development goals and assessing the impact of logistics indicators on social and environmental aspects.