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Freight Transport for Development Toolkit : Ports and Waterborne Freight

Kruk, C. Bert - 2009

The estimate of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is that more than 80 percent or close to 8 million tons in 2007, of world freight is transported by sea. Most, if not all, freight transport moves from the producer to the consumer through logistic processes thereby passing a...

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Logistics and Freight Services : Policies to Facilitate Trade

Rastogi, Cordula - 2020

ensure continuity of shipping, air, trucking, and warehousing capacities at critical gateways and hubs and along trade …

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The rail freight challenge for emerging economies : how to regain modal share

Aritua, Bernard - 2019

can accelerate modal shift to rail. Such officials, as well as the general public, aspire for more freight to be moved by … rail. The environmental and societal benefits of such a shift are compelling. And yet investment in railways is often not … followed by a corresponding increase in freight moved by rail. This report highlights the fact that, in a world of changing …

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Reducing environmental risks from belt and road initiative investments in transportation infrastructure

Losos, Elizabeth; Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Olander, Lydia; … - 2019

potentially more extensive environmental risks. The proposed Belt and Road Initiative rail and road investments have stimulated …

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Incorporating resilience in infrastructure prioritization : application to the road transport sector

Marcelo, Darwin; House, Schuyler; Raina, Aditi - 2018

Disruption of infrastructure services can cause significant social and economic losses, particularly in the event of a natural disaster. The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership to focus attention on the quality dimensions of...

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The World is not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!

Behrens, Kristian - 2016

The paper provides evidence of the effects of changes in transport costs on the geographic concentration of industries. The analysis uses micro-level commodity flow data and micro-geographic plant-level data to construct industry-specific ad valorem trucking rates and continuous measures of...

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Road Freight in Central America : Five Explanations to High Costs of Service Provision

World Bank - 2012

An efficient system to transport goods domestically and internationally is a key element of the logistics chain. Road freight transport has a direct impact on poverty as it employs millions of people and generates a significant portion of Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, especially in low and...

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Understanding the economic impacts of greenhouse gas mitigation policies on shipping : what is the state of the art of current modeling approaches?

Halim, Ronald A.; Smith, Tristan; Englert, Dominik - 2019

The International Maritime Organization's initial strategy on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships stipulates that the international shipping sector should assess the impacts on states prior to adoption of the mitigation measures included in the strategy. This assessment should be...

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Maritime Networks, Port Efficiency, and Hinterland Connectivity in the Mediterranean

Arvis, Jean-Fran - 2018

For millennia, the Mediterranean has been one of the most active trading areas, supported by a transport network connecting riparian cities and beyond to their hinterland. The Mediterranean has complex trade patterns and routes--but with key differences from the past. It is no longer an isolated...

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Zambia's Infrastructure : A Continental Perspective

Foster, Vivien - 2010

Infrastructure improvements contributed 0.6 percentage points to the annual per capita growth of Zambia's gross domestic product (GDP) over the past decade, mostly because of the exponential growth of information and communication technology (ICT) services. Poor performance of the power sector...

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