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Role of Transport and Infrastructure in Ensuring International Cooperation, Stability and
Sustainable Development
New York, 28 April 2014
Umberto de Pretto, Secretary General
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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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2010
Evolution of sea containers in 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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IRU’s New Euro-Asian Land Transport Initiative (NELTI)
• Launched in September 2008
• Commercial road transport
deliveries performed by transport
operators from 12 Euro-Asian
countries
•5 routes
• In cooperation with the Asian
Development Bank
Up to 57% of transport time = border crossings38% of transport costs = unofficial levies200,000 border crossings monitored
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If road construction is always beneficial, it is always more expensive, complex and time consuming than
to implement the UN facilitation instruments
How to reduce the “economic distance”Scenario 1: construct new roads
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Implement key UN facilitation instruments to allow road transport to drive trade!
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The most effective UN facilitation instrument
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Global Anti-Corruption Initiative (GACI)
Implemented jointly with the
UN Global Compact and
endorsed by the World Customs
Organisation
Purpose of the project is to collect information on the
existence of cases of corruption, bribery and extortion along
the major global road transport corridors on five continents
Launched during UN Anti-
Corruption Day on 9 December
2013
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Model Highway Initiative (MHI)
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MHI Key Elements
Creation of modern ancillary roadside infrastructure
Institutional reforms and implementation of best practices in the road transport sector
Establishment of a multilateral investment mechanism
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Creation of modern ancillary roadside infrastructure
Border crossing points (BCP) and facilities
Rest areas (RA)
Service areas (catering, shops, gas stations, parking, etc)
Safe parking lots for trucks and buses / coaches
Roadside hotels, motels and camping
Dry ports and multimodal logistics centres
Maintenance and repair centers for cars, trucks and buses
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Institutional reforms and implementation of best practices in the road transport sector
Liberalization of international road transportation
Harmonization and facilitation of border crossing procedures
Accession to and effective implementation of international agreements and conventions on trade and road transport facilitation)
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Multilateral Investment Mechanism(Regional Infrastructure Fund - RIF MHI)
Allocate funds for MHI infrastructure projects
Public-private partnership
Involve business community (international, national and local businesses) into the process of creation, and modernization of ancillary roadside infrastructure
Model highway functioning management
Other measures (Including ancillary MHI infrastructure clause into long term credit lines, etc.)
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Rest area
Service area
Parking lot
BCP (border crossing)
Dry port(logisticscentre)
MHI South Caucasus (MHI-SC) section:Trabzon - Sarpi (Georgia/Turkey BCP) – Batumi – Tbilisi – Krasny Most (Georgia/Azerbaijan BCP) - BakuPossible extensions: Baku port (BCP) - Turkmenbashi port (BCP) - Ashgabat; Trabzon – Samsun
MHI-South Caucasus section
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Rest area
Service area
Parking lot
BCP (border crossing)
MHI-Central Asia section
MHI Central Asia section:Pol-eXomri - Nizhniy Panj
(Afghanistan/ Tajikistan BCP) – Dushanbe – Karamyk (Tajikistan/ Kyrgyzstan BCP) – Bishkek – Kordai (Kyryzstan/Kazakhstan BCP) - Shimkent – Kzyl-Orda
Branches : Kordai – Almaty – Khorgos (Kazakhsatn/China BCP) Sarytash - Irkeshtam (Kyrgyzstan/China BCP)
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Connecting China and Europe
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