Tamozhennaya logistika voznikaet tam i togda, gde i kogda formiruyutsya global'nye logisticheskie tsepi vneshnetorgovogo oborota, t.e. kogda tamozhennye organy stanovyatsya zven'yami podobnykh logisticheskikh tsepey. Po mere togo kak predmetom logistiki kak nauki i praktiki upravleniya ekonomicheskimi potokami stanovyatsya ne tol'ko material'nye potoki otdel'no vzyatogo predpriyatiya, no i ekonomicheskie potoki sovokupnosti predpriyatiy, regional'nye ekonomicheskie potoki, a zatem i potoki mezhgosudarstvennogo obmena, tamozhennaya logistika stanovitsya vostrebovannoy khozyaystvennoy praktikoy. Logistizatsiya tamozhennoy deyatel'nosti, v konechnom schete, svoditsya k sozdaniyu i obespecheniyu effektivnogo funktsionirovaniya logisticheskikh sistem. Stanovlenie tamozhennoy logistiki imeet tsel'yu ratsionalizatsiyu i optimizatsiyu potokov tovarov i transportnykh sredstv cherez tamozhennuyu granitsu dlya sokrashcheniya vremeni i zatrat resursov v protsesse tamozhennoy pererabotki gruzov.