The secretariat continued to monitor and analyse developments relating to efficient transport and trade facilitation, including multimodal transport and logistics services.

Transport services should be seen as part of logistics services, which incorporated transport and production chains into global supply chains.

Commercial activities requiring logistics and physical supply and distribution chains, require roads and transport mechanisms.

As an important element of transit transport regimes, attention would be paid to ensuring an enabling environment for multimodal transport and logistics services.

Both intra national and international commercial logistics require viable and stable means to transport goods and people.

The experiment logistics module will be used to transport experimental equipment, samples, various gases and supplies.

Transport of contingent owned equipment Military airlifts Commercial freight and cartage 17. United Nations Logistics Base, Brindisi

Travel to United Nations Supply Depot Pisa to transport goods from warehouse to Logistics Base

21. Transport and logistics are the most important cost elements in foreign trade, particularly of developing countries and of LDCs.

Given their relative isolation transport logistics is also a persistent issue of importance to Pacific island countries.

ACIS is the generic name given to a tool box of computer applications which constitute a transport logistics information system capable of addressing multimodal cargo transit and transport resource problems.

In addition, ICTs enable trade in other sectors by enhancing market access and broadening the customer base, facilitating customs, transport and logistics.

Given the relative isolation of those countries, transport logistics is also a persistent issue of importance to them

From those and other internal observations, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations instituted the Air Safety Unit and the Air Operations Unit within the Transport Section of the Logistics and Communications Service, the Field Administration and Logistics Division.

In considering targeted approaches to poverty reduction, lack of access to transport and logistics facilities is a significant feature of rural poverty.

This is essential to ensure that staff are kept up to date with technology in the areas of communications, transport, engineering and logistics.

One way to capitalize on trade facilitation efforts is to identify niches for national transport operators along the logistics chain.

Collect relevant data for the financial performance report from the Purchase and Transport Service, the Logistics and Communication Section and the Personnel Management and Support Service

UNAMI intends to commence work on a 2.5 million logistics base for communications, transport maintenance and warehousing in mid 2005 in the international zone.

Recent trends in trade, transport and logistics have led to new requirements in the area of trade facilitation, which have also been analysed in an article in the Transport Newsletter (UNCTAD WEB SDTE TLB 2005 2).

Successful transit transport arrangements would bring together the private and public sectors from landlocked and transit countries, taking into account recent developments in international logistics, such as increased multimodal transport, new security requirements, and new information and communication technologies (ICTs).

In addition to carrying out MT workshops, ESCAP and UNCTAD are jointly executing technical assistance projects in the area of transport logistics, MT, and human resource development.

Transport, logistics and distribution services are crucial for moving goods and services from one country to another, while business, telecommunications and financial services reduce transaction costs and support trade.

The Subcommittee appreciated the advisory services provided by the secretariat to assist member countries develop efficient multimodal transport and logistics services and requested the secretariat to continue to support member states in capacity building with respect to multimodal transport and the implementation of international conventions.

Facilities and logistics

The Subcommittee strongly supported the implementation of the project on an integrated international transport and logistics system for North East Asia, being jointly undertaken by ESCAP and UNDP Tumen Secretariat.

The rental of heavy buses is required to transport local staff and personnel employed by the support service contractor to and from various premises in Luanda and the Viana logistics base.

19. Additionally, the Field Administration and Logistics Division, through the Air Operations Unit and the Air Safety Unit, Transport Section, Logistics and Communications Service, constantly monitored the use of air assets in existing missions in order to ensure that the best possible use is made of aircraft resources.

information that accompanies the physical movement of goods is to be shared more efficiently by players in the transport chain, providing interfaces to logistics, customs and other relevant authorities, and special attention is being given to the transport of hazardous materials. (Source European Commission)

(a) Identification of strategies for trade and transport facilitation, particularly in landlocked and island developing countries and of value added logistics services to be offered by developing countries and economies in transition

Moreover, as acknowledged in the report, the Division through the Air Transport Unit and the Aviation Safety Unit of the Transport Section of the Logistics and Communications Service, has already addressed many of the issues raised by OIOS and taken remedial action over the ensuing months.

120. The Service consists of five different sections according to functional responsibilities the Electronics Services Section, the Engineering Section, the Logistics Operations Section, the Supply Section and the Transport Section.

Trade facilitation and logistics

The existence and quality of infrastructural services are key determinants of trade services such as transport and logistics, but also distribution, telecommunications, financial and business services, are crucial to the competitiveness of economies.

(c) Promoting comprehensive approaches to removing institutional barriers and facilitating the international movement of goods, people and vehicles and introducing and developing multimodal transport and logistics services to enable active participation in the globalization process

The West African Regional Transit Facilitation Programme covers the simplification and harmonization of procedures and regulations, construction of adjacent border crossing points, installing a computer based information system on road transport logistics for tracking transport equipment and cargo, HIV AIDS, road safety, and institutional capacity building on a priority basis.

UNHCR assisted UNICEF with the logistics to provide transport for 22,000 disarmed children from the disarmament and demobilization sites to the interim care centres designed to receive them for counselling and reorientation activities.

(a) Procurement and Logistics Services

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(iii) Logistics and Communications Service

Logistics budgeting and finance and personnel.

The result is what is sometimes called the atomization of global supply chains increasingly fine subdivisions are feasible, more efficient, and locatable almost anywhere. Proximity still matters in terms of transport and logistics costs.

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