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Putting Transport on the Latin American Investment Agenda |
ITF Secretary-General José Viegas brought a transport perspective to the OECD's 4th Conference on Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean in Lima, Peru on 7-8 July. Themed
"Bridging infrastructure gaps through smart investment", the event - co-organised by the OECD, the government of Peru and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and opened by Peruvian Prime Minister René Cornejo Diaz - explored the needs and opportunities for investment in the region, with a view to maximizing economic and development benefits generated by infrastructure investment. Mr Viegas moderated a panel on
"Investment in transport - corporate strategies and regulatory challenges" (pictured) and was a discussant on the concluding panel, together with Colombian transport minister Cecilia Álvarez-Correa Glen.
In Santiago, Chile, Secretary-General Viegas met with Chilean minister of transport Andres Gomez-Lobo and Vice-Minister Cristián Bowen to discuss next steps for the implementation of the planned Logistics Observatory, for which Chile and the ITF signed a letter of intent at the ITF Summit in Germany in May. Intensified co-operation in other areas such as ITF's research activities and with respect to Chilean public transport projects were also discussed. In Santiago, Mr Viegas also met with board members of leading transport companies including LAN, the Chilean airline, and Ultranav (shipping and ports).
(Photo: ProInversión Perú | Flickr)
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| Global freight: divergent trends for developed and developing economies |
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The latest available data on global
freight
collected by ITF up to and including March 2014 and released in the July issue
of the Statistics Brief shows:
- USA and EU27 external trade, measured in tonnes of goods moved, remains stagnant;
- BRICS and Asia are locomotives of growth;
- China's external trade by sea and air, measured in values, continues to grow;
- Inland freight transport in emerging economies outperforms developed economies.
(Photo:
kartografia | Flickr cc)
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ITF kicked off preparation for its upcoming report on
Liberalisation of Aviation with two special sessions on the
topic during the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) Conference. ITF
Head of Research Stephen Perkins chaired the first of the special
sessions at this annual conference on the economics of airlines and
airports, held in Bordeaux, France from 17-20 July.
A keynote
presentation on regulatory trends worldwide for criteria air pollutant
emissions and CO2 economy was delivered by ITF's Mr Perkins,
representing the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI). The keynote was
delivered during a conference on Harmonisation of Light Duty Vehicle Regulations in North America
organised jointly by the Mexican Ministry of Environment (SEMARNAT) and
the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in Mexico City
from 8-12 July.
Mr Perkins also delivered a keynote presentation
on "Regulation of Heavy Road Freight" at Mexico's
National Freight Transport Forum in the presence of Rufino Léon Tovar,
Minister of Transportation and Roads, Mexico City Government, in Cancún,
Mexico from 9-12 July.
A mission to conduct a qualitative assessment of the trade and transport policy environment in
ITF member country Turkey through a series of stakeholder
meetings was undertaken by ITF's Dilay Celebi between Istanbul and
Ankara from 01-04 July. The mission supports the ITF Corporate
Partnership Board (CPB) Project "Understanding Drivers of Trade and Transport Performance",
aiming to determine linkages between transport policies and performance
indicators associated with the logistics performance index (LPI)
in Turkey.
Dr Celebi also presented a paper on Understanding Drivers of Trade and Transport Performance
at the International Symposium on Logistics (ISL), an
academic symposium for logistics, operations and supply chain
management, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on 8
July.
A new Web-Based Road Safety Manual for Road
Managers is to be released by The World Road Association
(PIARC) at the PIARC Congress in Seoul, Korea in 2015. Road Safety
Expert Véronique Feypell represents ITF on the PIARC Task Force for reviewing the
manual, a final draft of
which was presented and discussed at a Task Force meeting in
Vienna, Austria on 1-3 July.
An address on OECD's work on port-cities was delivered
by ITF's Olaf Merk during the Naples Shipping Week at a session
organised by RETE, an association of ports in Italy, Portugal and Spain
on 27 July in Naples, Italy.
Clair Millar, Manager of Summit
Preparation, introduced the ITF 2015 Summit theme "Transport, Trade and
Tourism" at an OECD-organised workshop on Effective Policies for
Tourism Growth. The workshop was hosted by SECO, the State
Secretariat for Economic Affairs in Switzerland, in Bern on 2-3 July.
ITF is hiring a Project Manager/Analyst.
More details here.
ITF is
very pleased to welcome new staff members:
Vincent
Benezech will be working with the ITF's Transport Outlook team,
analysing transport policies' long-term impact on demand and CO2
emissions as well as developing new prediction models. Vincent joins ITF
from Réseau Ferré de France, the French railway infrastructure manager.
Seiya Ishikawa
joins ITF
from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and
Tourism (MLIT). He previously was a member of the Japanese Delegation to
the OECD's Territorial Development Policy Committee (TDPC). Seiya will be working on preparations for the
ITF 2015
Summit on "Transport, Trade and Tourism".
Henry Peach
joins ITF on secondment from the New Zealand Ministry of Transport, ITF's
2014-2015 Presidency country. Henry will assist the Summit and Policy
team in developing the 2015 Summit programme and support the New
Zealand Presidency work.
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