Transcript Road transport: Linking land-locked countries to markets! Implementing Aid-for-Trade Road Maps Geneva, 11 July 2013 Jens Hügel Head – Sustainable Development.

Road transport:
Linking land-locked
countries to markets!
Implementing Aid-for-Trade Road Maps
Geneva, 11 July 2013
Jens Hügel
Head – Sustainable Development
Facilitating and securing trade and
international road transport since 1948!
2013: 170 Members
in 74 countries
1948: eight
founder countries
…and 26 CRIPA
Members in 22
countries
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What is Globalisation?
What does it take to have a cup of coffee in a café?
The combined efforts
of 29 companies in
18 countries
Road Transport has become a vital production tool!
Source: IRU
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Road transport tonnage distances
in modern economies
90
84.9%
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
11.8%
10
2.4%
0.9%
0
< 150km
150-500km
500-1000km
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> 1000km
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Global evolution of container
volumes in ports
2010
1971
2000
1990
1980
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US Chamber feasibility study
confirms commercial viability!
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IRU Caravans: No country is
landlocked to road transport!
2004: The Lisbon-Vladivostok Caravan
2005: The Beijing-Berlin-Brussels Caravan
2007: Black Sea Highway Caravan
2010: IRU-ECO Silk Road Truck Caravan
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IRU Caravans demonstrated that
adequate roads exist, but that there
is little traffic!!
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…until the trucks 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
57% of transport time lost at border crossings!
38% of transport costs due to unofficial levies
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Any penalty on road transport is an even
greater penalty on the economy as a whole!
16
14
USD Billions
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Transport Costs only
Source: Hague Consulting Group
All Costs *
* Includes lost opportunities
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How can we change this view and let
road transport drive trade, progress
and prosperity?
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To bring them hope!
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Implement key UN trade facilitation
instruments to allow
countries to be land linked!
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Securing and facilitating trade and
international road transport
Transports
Internationaux Routiers
Managed by the
IRU since 1949
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TIR-EPD Green Lanes blueprint
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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