Territorial Logistics Governance and Sustainable Development Challenges : (Analysis and evaluation of the logistics competitiveness of the Casablanca-Settat region)

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it is about situating our study of the governance of territorial logistics by answering certain questions. How logistics can participate in the development of the territories? How to reconcile the obligation of companies' competitiveness with the imperative of the sustainable territorial development? In other words, how to give a determining place of the territorial logistics within the framework of the sustainable development approach? The second purpose is to measure and analyze the logistics competitiveness of the Casablanca-Settat region. The result of this study is considered the paper's major contributions and its provide a review of the logistics competitiveness of the region. However, further studies are needed for the other regions of Morocco in order to have a clear vision of regional logistics performance and to support territorial logistics governance in the context of the advanced regionalisation adopted in Morocco.