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Euro-Asia Road Transport
Connections:
from the cockpit of the driver to
strategic challenges!ITC Ministerial Meeting on Eurasian Transport Link,
Geneva, 26 February 2013
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1948: eight founder countries
2013: 170 Members in 74 countries2013: 170 Members in 74 countries
…and 26 CRIPA Members in 22 countries
Facilitating and securing trade and international road transport since 1948!
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What is Globalisation?
Source: IRU
Road Transport has become a vital production tool!
The combined efforts of 29 companies in 18 countries
What does it take to have a cup of coffee in a café?
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Road transport tonnage distancesin modern economies
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2010
Evolution of sea containersin ports
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Daily telecommunications activities
Telecommunications gap corresponds to the regions that have not been interconnected to global trade
• Source: Centre for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC
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2004: The Lisbon-Vladivostok Caravan 2005: The Beijing-Berlin-Brussels Caravan
2010: IRU-ECO Silk Road Truck Caravan
IRU Caravans: No country is landlocked to road transport!
2007: Black Sea Highway Caravan
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IRU Caravan drivers saw this… adequate roads but little traffic!!
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…until they reached border crossings!!
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IRU New Eurasian Land Transport Initiative (NELTI)
• From September 2008 to date• Monitoring of over 200,000 border crossings
40% of transport time lost at border crossings!
38% of transport costs due to unofficial levies
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Transport Costs only All Costs *
Source: Hague Consulting Group * Includes lost opportunities
Any penalty on road transport is an even greater penalty on the economy as a whole!
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IRU Border Waiting Times Observatory (BWTO)
Check and report on border waiting times, free of charge, worldwide!
www.iru.org/bwt
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How can we change this view and let road transport drive trade, progress
and prosperity?
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So instead of seeing despair!
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We can bring them hope!
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Implement key UN facilitation instruments to allow
road transport to drive trade!
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•
Transports
Internationaux Routiers
Managed by the IRU since 1949
Securing and facilitating trade and international road transport
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TIR-EPD Green Lanes blueprint
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Reduce border waiting times, facilitate trade, increase risk management efficiency, improve customs controls, secure trade and transport!
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We want to see this…
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….instead of this by….
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www.iru.org
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JOIN US!AMMAN, 12-13 JUNE 2013
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