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

2. Facilitating and securing trade and international road transport since 1948!
2013: 170 Members in 74 countries
2013: 170 Members in 74 countries
1948: eight founder countries
…and 26 CRIPA Members in 22 countries
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3. 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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4. Road transport tonnage distances in modern economies
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5. Global evolution of container volumes in ports
2010
1971
2000
1990
1980
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6. US Chamber feasibility study confirms commercial viability!
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7. 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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8. IRU Caravans demonstrated that adequate roads exist, but that there is little traffic!!
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9. …until the trucks reached border crossings!!
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10. 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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11. Any penalty on road transport is an even greater penalty on the economy as a whole!
Source: Hague Consulting Group
* Includes lost opportunities
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12. How can we change this view and let road transport drive trade, progress and prosperity?
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13. To bring them hope!
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14. Implement key UN trade facilitation instruments to allow countries to be land linked!
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15. Transports Internationaux Routiers
Securing and facilitating trade and international road transport
Transports
Internationaux Routiers
Managed by the IRU since 1949
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16. 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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17. We want to see this…
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18. ….instead of this by….
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