Transport Policy or Logistic Policy?

Nowadays logistics plays a very important role, not only in the functioning of separate companies. More and more often one can point out its direct and indirect influence on economy. Beside this, globalization of production and associated supply chains makes it even more significant in international economic relations. Increased interest in macroeconomic aspects of logistics and interrelations on the verge of production, trade and transport facilitate the emergence of a new type of central economic policy, called logistic policy. Its main task is to intentionally, directly or indirectly, influence the effectiveness of product flow processes and accompanying information among participants of supply chains. This article attempts to present the weaknesses of traditional transport policy, arguments in favour of the introduction of logistic policy, and global civilization trends being the base of evaluation of transport policy towards logistic policy. It also reviews logistic policies in- selected countries of the world