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The Role of Transport Infrastructure, Logistics, and Trade Facilitation in Asian Trade

In: Pan-Asian Integration

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  • John Arnold

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The impact of the quality of transport infrastructure and logistics services on the level of trade among the countries of East and South Asia is less significant than it used to be. This is so because dramatic improvements have taken place in both infrastructure and services over the last three decades. The dominant mode for freight transport between these two regions remains ocean transport, and this situation is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Land transport, both road and rail, will have an increasing role in bilateral trade within Asia. It may also facilitate trade between noncontiguous countries within South and East Asia, but this will require a significant improvement in border-crossing procedures. It is unlikely that land transport will attract a substantial share of trade flows between the two regions within the next decade, despite efforts to develop various links of the Asian Highway and the Inter-Asian Railway. Air transport is growing in importance as the value of commodities traded between the two regions increases. However, the growth in airfreight has lagged behind that of ocean transport and is expected to continue doing so.

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  • John Arnold, 2009. "The Role of Transport Infrastructure, Logistics, and Trade Facilitation in Asian Trade," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Joseph Francois & Pradumna B. Rana & Ganeshan Wignaraja (ed.), Pan-Asian Integration, chapter 6, pages 351-437, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23697-4_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230236974_6
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    1. Brooks, Douglas H. & Stone, Susan F., 2010. "Accelerating Regional Integration: Issues at the Border," ADBI Working Papers 200, Asian Development Bank Institute.
    2. Biswa N Bhattacharyay, 2009. "Restoring the Asian Silk Route: Toward an Integrated Asia," Working Papers id:2165, eSocialSciences.
    3. Ganeshan Wignaraja, 2014. "Will South Asia Benefit from Pan-Asian Integration?," South Asia Economic Journal, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, vol. 15(2), pages 175-197, September.
    4. World Bank Group, 2017. "The Russian Federation - An Exploratory Assessment of Transport Connectivity," World Bank Publications - Reports 30046, The World Bank Group.
    5. Wignaraja, Ganeshan, 2014. "Assessing the Experience of South Asia–East Asia Integration and India’s Role," ADBI Working Papers 465, Asian Development Bank Institute.
    6. Bayley, Anthony, 2014. "Policies to Enhance Trade Facilitation in South Asia and Southeast Asia," ADBI Working Papers 489, Asian Development Bank Institute.
    7. Pernia, Ernesto, 2012. "Infrastructure and Inclusive Growth," MPRA Paper 104910, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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