Euro-Asia Road Transport Connections: from the cockpit of the driver to strategic challenges! ITC Ministerial Meeting on Eurasian Transport Link, Geneva,

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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

© International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page : eight founder countries 2013: 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 distances in modern economies Page 4Page 4 (c) International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013

2010 Evolution of sea containers in ports Page 5 © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013

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, DCSource: Centre for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC Page 6 © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013

Page 7 (c) International Road Transport Union (IRU) : 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!! © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page 8

…until they reached border crossings!! © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page 9

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 Page 10 © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013

Page 11 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! Page 12 © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013

How can we change this view and let road transport drive trade, progress and prosperity? © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page 13

So instead of seeing despair! © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page 14

We can bring them hope! © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page 15

Implement key UN facilitation instruments to allow road transport to drive trade! Page 16 (c) International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013

Transports Internationaux Routiers Managed by the IRU since 1949 Securing and facilitating trade and international road transport © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page 17

TIR-EPD Green Lanes blueprint © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page Page 18 Reduce border waiting times, facilitate trade, increase risk management efficiency, improve customs controls, secure trade and transport!

We want to see this… Page 19 © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013

….instead of this by…. © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page 20

© International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2013 Page 21

JOIN US! AMMAN, JUNE 2013 © International Road Transport Union (IRU) 2012 Page 22