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!

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?

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

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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Source: Hague Consulting Group * Includes lost opportunities

Any penalty on road transport is an even greater penalty on the economy as a whole!

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!

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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