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The study examined the effect of logistics on the performance of transportation firms in Enugu State Nigeria. Specifically, the study sought to; examine the effect of logistics demand planning on safety delivery of transportation firms and evaluate the effect of storage and material handling on rapid response of transportation firms in Enugu State. The sample size of 400 respondents was drawn from population of 1,052 staffs of the selected indigenous transportation companies in Enugu State namely: ABC Transport, Peace Mass Transit, Young Shall Grow and Enugu State Transport Company. The data analytical technique was single regression. The empirical results show that logistics demand planning has significant effect on safety delivery of transportation firms in Enugu State (t-statistic; 6.445; P-value; 0.000 < Sig-value; 0.05); and storage and material handling has significant effect on rapid response of transportation firms in Enugu State (t-statistic; 11.226; P-value; 0.000 < Sig-value; 0.05) The study recommended that management of transportation firms should increase investment on infrastructure of transportation for spare parts inventory within vehicle repair workshop.
Chukwu et al. (Tue,) studied this question.