Trans Asian Railway

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Description: 1. Network identification Why and how UNESCAP and its member countries decided in the early 1990s to identify an international network of railway lines traveling across the Asian continent. 2. Network operationalization How UNESCAP and a group of countries went about showing the relevance of railways to serve the movement of international trade flows within Asia and between Asia and Europe. 3. Network formalization The Intergovernmental Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network was signed at Busan, Republic of Korea, on 10 November 2006 during the Ministerial Conference on Transport that took place in the port city from 6 to 11 November 2006. The Agreement was recognized as an example of successful regional cooperation in the Busan Declaration on Transport Development in Asia and the Pacific adopted by the Ministers on 11 November 2006. See which countries signed and how UNESCAP and its member countries got to this point.
Source/publisher: UNSCAP
Date of entry/update: 2010-08-19
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Substantial report. Contains a lot of information about the rail situation and projects in Burma/Myanmar. Go section by section or download the 5MB pdf file. "The principal objective of this study is to identify, and to evaluate the development and operation of a network of routes allowing through railway transport of containers between South Asia and Europe, southern China and Europe and Thailand and Europe. These routes would run via Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Turkey..."
Source/publisher: UN ESCAP
1999-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-08-19
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: A 1995 feasibility study, limited to Bangladesh, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, had identified a basic network of routes, recommended certain technical and operational standards for this network and provided a limited appraisal of the status of the existing routes in relation with these standards. In the light of the development of trade and economic exchanges between the countries belonging to subregional groupings in South and South-east Asia (Economic Cooperation Organisation, Bangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation), it was decided that the time had come to expand the scope of the study to include China, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Turkey and to (i) re-evaluate, and if necessary re-define, the network previously identified, (ii) assess the improvements required in institutional and commercial procedures to attract international traffic to the corridor, (iii) define an Action Plan for the development of the corridor to facilitate inter- and intra-regional trade and economic growth. The findings and recommendations of the study were considered by the representatives of all the countries concerned during a Policy-level Expert Group Meeting held in Dhaka (Bangladesh) in May 1999 during which the countries agreed on the establishment of Working Groups to study the gradual operationalisation of the corridors. Following the Meeting, the study was published as Trans-Asian Railway in the Southern Corridor of Asia-Europe Routes (ST/ESCAP/1980, New York, 1999).
Source/publisher: UN ESCAP
1999-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-08-19
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Source/publisher: UN ESCAP
2002-02-13
Date of entry/update: 2010-08-19
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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