Kuala Lampur, Aug. 23 -- Malaysia has every physical asset a logistics powerhouse needs; deep-water ports, international airports, industrial parks, and strategic geography.

What it increasingly confronts is a coordination problem: too many parts of the logistics ecosystem operate within separate administrative compartments, when the modern global economy demands them to function as one seamless network.

This is why Malaysia should establish a Logistics Super Agency.

Logistics is not a secondary industry that merely transports goods after they have been produced.

It is one of the major pillars of every serious economic power.

The Silk Road, after all, was fundamentally a logistics network that connected East and West, long before the...