Wpływ przywracania wyjątkowych kontroli granicznych w strefie Schengen na funkcjonowanie europejskich łańcuchów dostaw
Effect of restoration of exceptional border controls in the Schengen area on the functioning of European supply chains

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to show the impact of reintroduction of border controls on European supply chains. The migration crisis causing the need to restore border controls has contributed to understanding how thanks to the system of the Schengen, open borders and facilitating the flow of people, goods and capital helped shape the common European market. Threats to the EU economy can be identified by information from carriers informing about increase of the waiting time for crossing borders and increased transportation costs. These facts lead to the threat for the current configuration of logistics systems in Europe. Corporate networks combine transport systems and storage to rationalize their structures based on the implementation of certain transport operations within the given time. However, EKONOMIA XXI WIEKU ECONOMICS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 3(11) ● 2016 ISSN 2353-8929 e-ISSN 2449-9757 recent experience results in a reduction in security of supply and the need to reconfigure logistics systems. This aims for increasing the security of supply for synchronously operating production and distribution hubs. However, the character of such a reconfiguration is opposite to the direction defined by the European Commission that builds internal cohesion of the EU.

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