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Fourteen Asian nations have undersigned an agreement for the development of the interportuale net
Between the objectives, the international acknowledgment of interposing to you and favoring the investments in interportuali infrastructures
November 8, 2013
Today, in occasion of the Forum of the ministers of the Transports of Asia that is carried out to Bangkok, fourteen Asian nations have undersigned an intergovernmental agreement on interposing you under the promoters of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) of the United Nations. With the signature of the understanding the governments of Armenia, Cambodia, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Iran, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia Tajikistan, Thailand and Vietnam have manifested their engagement for the attainment of a common vision of an integrated system of intermodal transport and logistics.
"In order too much time - the vice general secretary of the ESCAP, Noeleen Heyzer has commented - the benefits of the economic increase are concentrated mainly on our prospere coastal communities and the nations and the regions without outlet on the sea have had to tackle to prohibitive costs and logistic problems complexes in order to carry their goods and their services to the markets and in order to approach the regional and total productive systems and the supply chains. This today's agreement represents our engagement in order to change this truth. The dry ports they are essential hub in the outback that will help us to take advantage of the investments in roads and railroads that we have already realized. Together we will create prospers commercial corridors and of transport transforming the nations without access to the sea in centers of earth development".
The agreement has the objective to promote the international acknowledgment of interposing to you, facilitating the investments in interportuali infrastructures, to improve the operating efficiency and to elevate the environmental sustainability of the transports. The understanding will take effect when eight nations will sign a formal adhesion to the agreement, ratifies that it is begun today with the signature on purpose from Thailand.
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Today, in occasion of the Forum of the ministers of the Transports of Asia that is carried out to Bangkok, fourteen Asian nations have undersigned an intergovernmental agreement on interposing you under the promoters of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) of the United Nations. With the signature of the understanding the governments of Armenia, Cambodia, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Iran, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia Tajikistan, Thailand and Vietnam have manifested their engagement for the attainment of a common vision of an integrated system of intermodal transport and logistics.
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