Trade facilitation and transport through the NorthSouth Corridor

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Trade facilitation and transport through the
North-South Corridor
Will Keenan UN Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD)
International Association of Port Harbors
(IAPH) 7th Asia Oceania Regional Meeting and
Forum
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NATIONAL TRADE CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMSure,
but sound, steps being taken..
JAN 06 PROGRESS REPORT

• By
• NTCIP Secretariat at
• Planning Commission
• 28 January 2006

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THIS CORRIDOR MOVES PAKISTANS EXTERNAL AND
INTERNAL TRADE...

• 2 ports handling 95 of external trade.
• Two main roads and a main railway line handling
  65 percent of total land freight.
• 10 dry ports catering to high value external
  trade.
• Pipelines carrying 6 mil tones of POL.

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Bring Road Transport into the 21st centurySave
Pakistan Rs 115-145bil each year

• Committee on Motorways/National
  Highways,
• Trucking Modernization, and MVT Registration

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Competitive Railways lowers trade transport costs
Contributes to the Rs115-145bil/yr savings

• Committee on Railway Restructuring
  Modernization

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Competitive Aviation Sector Aids Growth

• Committee on
• Air Transport

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Efficient Ports Lower the Cost of Doing
Business!Save Pakistan Rs27.4bil

• Committee on Ports Improvement
  Modernization

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Ports benchmarked and trying to achieve key NTC
targets..
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Improved and Standardized Procedures and
Information Flows Facilitate Trade! Saving
Pakistan Rs75bil

• Committee on
• Trade Facilitation, Port Dwell Time Charges

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Trade Transport Facilitation Project

• Operational since August 2001
• Under Ministry of Commerce
• US 3.2M World Bank loan FPCCI/PSC US 0.5M
  in kind contribution
• UNCTAD contracted for technical assist.

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TTFP results include

• Simplified documents
• Goods Declaration, certificate of origin, etc.
• Progress on international conventions
• TIR, ATA, Kyoto
• Professional development
• freight forwarders, bankers, mango exporters
• Carriage of goods draft acts
• sea, road, air, marine insurance (rail dropped)

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Port shipping charges
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Pakistani ports are competitive, says expert
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Pakistani ports are competitive, says expert
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Pakistani ports are competitive, says expert
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Pakistani ports are competitive, says expert
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Pakistani ports are competitive, says expert
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Marc Abeilles response

• My presentation was not about benchmarking
  Pakistan ports vs. other ports but about the
  complexity of the situation
• I do not have all my conclusions so far
• Studies have been made by WB and NTTFC
• Costs are not necessarily high but the situation
  is unclear and this is the reason of my study

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Key lessons learned

• Avoid too many activities at once
• Link facilitation to infrastructure
• Do not confound facilitation with business
  development
• Multiple ownership a must
• Trade facilitation takes longer than expected

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Thank you

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