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