Proceedings of the regional technical workshop on transportation and transit facilitation : regional initiative on transport integration South Asia region

This report presents an overview of the discussions held at the workshop. It does not attempt to elaborate on the entire content of the presentations. Instead, it presents highlights of the international case studies and thematic presentations and the discussions that followed. In particular, it focuses on the recommendations made by the participants regarding three key thematic areas: Trade Facilitation and Customs Reform; Transportation Corridors and Operations; Public/Private Partnerships in Transportation and Logistics Improvement. The main objective of the Workshop was to provide a forum at which key government and private sector representatives of South Asian countries might review global experiences in transportation and regional trade arrangements, discuss transportation and trade facilitation issues within South Asia, and identify the principal bottlenecks and constraints encountered in the movement of commodities within and outside the region.