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Views exchanged on transportation and transit shipment during pandemic
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva on September 29 organized a working session on ‘Facilitating transit and transport operation in crisis situation: Lessons learned from COVID-19’.
In his opening remarks, Ambassador L.Purevsuren said, “At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, expectations were that seaborne trade, including containerized trade, would experience a strong downturn. However, changes in consumption and shopping patterns have led to increased import demand for manufactured consumer goods, a large part of which are moved in shipping containers. The increase in demand was stronger than expected and not met with a sufficient supply of shipping capacity. As a result of this, transit shipments and transport operations have been delayed and container freight rates significantly increased in many parts of the world specifically in landlocked developing countries. This session will address challenges caused by shortage of containers and increase in freight rates and identify practical recommendations in this regard including establishment of dry ports in landlocked countries to facilitate transit and transport operations.”
Paul Hansen, Head of the Trade Facilitation of the UNCTAD, Vyara Filipova, Technical Officer at WCO, J.Enkhtuul, Researcher at the International Center for Landlocked Developing Countries, and Steven Pope, Head of Trade Facilitation at Deutsche Post DHL Group participated in the session as panelists and exchanged views on international trade, especially on land transit issues in landlocked developing countries, possibilities to address them, and policy recommendations.
The Public Forum is the WTO’s largest annual outreach event,
which provides a platform for participants to discuss the latest developments
in world trade and to propose ways of enhancing the multilateral trading
system. The event regularly attracts over 1,500 representatives from civil
society, academia, business, the media, governments, parliamentarians and
inter-governmental organizations.
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