The exigence of the common logistics policy for European community and the deconstruction of the common transportation policy

Common transportation policy (CTP) is among the oldest policies of the European Union (EU). Although, no common logistic policy has been introduced so far, it is ironic, because transportation is one of the main constituents of logistics which is regarded as the millennium’s rising value. This does not mean that the European community does not care about logistics. Many companies, located in Europe, have conducted many comprehensive, sophisticated and developed logistic activities. The EU ports, which ranked at the highest levels in the world, recently leave their positions to the Asian ports. Besides that, traffic jams in main arterial highways, chronic delays in airways also force the European countries to move in coordination. The community can neither solve the existing mainly economic and fiscal problems nor be successful in any of the existing common policies without developing efficient logistic polices. The EU cannot be successful in the global competitive race, without common logistics strategies, as well. The requirement forcommon logistic policy has become more definite and imperative. The EU should transform its common transport policy to common logistics policy without any delay since this is the only way out for the EU.   Key words: Common logistics policy, logistics, transportation, common transport policy, outsourcing.