“…Logistical activities allow companies to have access to a range of different services, such as third-party suppliers, transporters, distributors, stockists, truck terminals, railways, ports and airports, allied manufacturing specialised information technology, highquality workforce, and low qualification (Gafurov et al, 2014;Heijman et al, 2017), allowing the creation of auxiliary companies to their activities, such as truck maintenance companies, software suppliers, specialised law firms, financial service providers, among others (Heijman et al, 2017). The work developed by Gafurov et al (2014) indicates that the creation of inter-regional logistics centres leads to reductions in transport costs of 7 to 20%, a reduction of 15 to 30% in the cost of handling and storing resources and final products, and accelerates the turnover of material resources by about 20 to 40%.…”