A Thesis Submitted to Addis Ababa University College of Commerce in partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Masters of Logistics and Supply Chain Management

In the operation of the company, the development of logistics takes the largest part on its day-to-day operation in fuel retail business in Ethiopian oil retail industry. Third party logistics companies play a vital role to the operation and distribution of fuel in the country and contributes to the economic growth of the country; we can say logistics is on its infant stage in Ethiopia. Likewise, in LOEL, logistics in fuel retail business is the largest operation of the organization’s overall performance and in Ethiopia as well; it constitutes more than 50% of the total operation since the company operates mainly on distribution of oil and fuel business, which is the time and place value of logistics. Recently the performance of outsourcing logistics business in Ethiopia has increasing. Almost all oil companies use outsourced logistics service in their operation. However, the challenges of its collaboration, safety and business awareness is mentioned on many instances with the transporter and company management, monthly joint meetings and joint consultations. This research is attempted to describethe outsourced logistics performance of the company in the case of Libya Oil Ethiopia Limited. The scope of the study is assessment on the performance of logistics of Libya Oil Ethiopia Limited in relation to third party logistics service providers. The unit of analysis is assessment of logistics in the case of Libya Oil Ethiopia Limited in relation to its outsourced logistics performance. Semi-structured interview was undertaken to obtain primary data and archival data and some printed and non printed data are used as secondary data.