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Regional Conference on Strengthening Transport Connectivity & Trade Facilitation in South & South West Asia Harpreet Singh Director (Projects & Services), CONCOR INDIA Lahore, Pakistan, 9-10 December 2013. Outline of Presentation. Setting the Context Sub-regional Groups/ Trade agreements

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  1. Regional Conference on Strengthening Transport Connectivity & Trade Facilitation in South & South West Asia Harpreet Singh Director (Projects & Services), CONCOR INDIA Lahore, Pakistan, 9-10 December 2013

  2. Outline of Presentation Setting the Context Sub-regional Groups/ Trade agreements Assessment of Infrastructure Contribution of CONCOR Way Ahead for the Region

  3. Setting the Context South & South West Asia region: High growth nations as compared to World average. It is major driver of global economic recovery In the aftermath of global financial crisis in West: domestic & regional trade is a must to sustain growth For this: Transport Connectivity is v. critical

  4. Sub-regional groups/ Trade agreements To boost business in the sub-region, several groups and trade agreements have been formed Preferential trade arrangements play a major role in stimulating trade These agreements result in reduced costs and increasing volumes of regional trade

  5. Trade Competitiveness depends on efficient, fast, reliable and seamless connectivity

  6. Assessment of Infrastructure The infrastructure of Transport Network in South and South West Asia is lower than the World average (Source: Kalegama & Abayasekara, Regional Economic cooperation and connectivity in south and south west asia)

  7. Assessment of Infrastructure… • Air transport is most developed in the region • Ports are also relatively well developed. All top 10 container ports are in Asia • Road and Rail networks are less developed in the Region. Need lots of improvements and inputs • Greater emphasis needs to be laid on improving Rail connectivity of the Region

  8. Container Corporation of India Ltd CONCOR Leading multimodal logistics company of India with 80% market share Contribution to Connectivity

  9. Roles of CONCOR Carrier Terminal Operator Warehouse operator

  10. CONCOR’s FUNCTIONS Logistics support to EXIM & Domestic Traffic Coordinates Containerized Rail Movements across the country. Provides Warehousing facilities Designs, Constructs, and operates Dry Ports (ICDs) & Domestic Terminals in India. Operates Port terminals in collaboration with International Port Operators. Significant player in the multi-modal transportation services. Made forays into Cold Chain, Air Cargo etc.

  11. CONCOR’s PAN INDIA PRESENCE

  12. CONCOR: Marches Ahead…

  13. CONCOR: Improving Connectivity • Vast network of 62 terminals spread across length & breadth of India • Large fleet of 260 high speed rakes • State of the art equipments deployed at terminals (RTG/RMG/RST) • Operating Nepal’s first and only rail connected dry port through JV • 12 MMLPS being developed mostly along DFC • Planning operations in other neighbouring countries

  14. Way Ahead for the Region • Intergovernmental agreement on dry ports of international importance (230 dry ports in 27 countries, approx 81 are potential) • Trans Asian Railways Network (missing links; railway gauge mismatches: India/Pakistan-1676mm, Iran/Turkey-1435mm, Bangladesh-MG mostly) • Intergovernmental agreement on Asian Highways Network

  15. Way Ahead for the Region… • Demonstration Run of Container Trains (Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul, Bangladesh-India-Nepal planned) • Expert Group of SAARC: Identified railway routes for regional integration • Setting up of ICPs (Total 13 ICPs planned: 1 with Pakistan, 4 with Nepal, 1 with Myanmar, 7 with Bangladesh)

  16. Way Ahead for the Region… • CONCOR ready to set up an ICD near Wagah border for facilitation of Containerized trade with Pakistan. • Containers interchange protocol between India and Pakistan needs to be finalized • The modalities of containers to be moved across the border needs to be tied up with all stakeholders including shipping lines • CONCOR is keen to run Container train to Pakistan if these modalities are worked out between the two Governments.

  17. THANK YOU dps@concorindia.com

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