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Logistics performance is one of important factors in economic growth of a country. Many firms in all over the world outsourcing their logistics activities to third party logistics companies (3PL) in order to gain higher performance and reduce time and cost of logistics services. Important role of 3PL companies and lack of them in Iran’s logistics industry were the main drives of this of this thesis. In this thesis after introduction and literature review, the main question of thesis will be defined this is about advantages of using 3PLs in Iran logistics industry and structure of them. To find the answer, based on information and statistical reports from world bank, Iran logistics...