Identification and prioritizing logistics management factors affecting export performance with the help of AHP model (Case study of Customs and Ports of Khuzestan Province)

Considering that ports and customs are one of the highways to reach the gates of world trade and also considering Iran's share in exports and imports from these strategic and logistical areas, this is a good ground to identification and prioritizing logistics management factors to determine the extent of improving export performance in ports and customs. The purpose of this research in the first step is to identify logistics management factors in the customs and ports department of Khuzestan province and prioritizing these factors and in the second step the impact of these factors on export performance.

This study was conducted using data collected in the first stage to identification  the factors of 15 experts active in the field of customs and in the second stage of a sample consisting of 152 managers and experts of the Customs and Ports of Khuzestan province.

The research findings show that among the logistics management factors, the maintenance factor has the highest weight value among the identified indicators. Structural equation modeling technique has been used to determine the effect of variables.

The analysis of the obtained data was performed using LISREL statistical software, which shows the confirmation of all hypotheses.