One area that directly affects logistics is packaging. Packaging is an essential component of any product and directly affects profitability and corporate image. How and when products move along the supply chain can be just as vital to a company's bottom line as production, sales, and marketing. Transportation has become too integral a part of a company's overall operations' goals to remain the province of the shipping department alone. The Asia Pacific now accounts for sixty percent of the world output.
China has the second highest rate of productivity in the world, after the United States.
Forty percent of U.S. trade is Trans-Pacific. Latin America is the fastest growing market for US exports. Since 1990, seventy percent of all new U.S. foreign investment has gone to Latin America's economic activity. Brazil alone accounts for one-third of Latin America's economic activity.