On the occasion of a course on sustainable logistics, mobility and energy efficiency carried out by ECLAC’s Division of Natural Resources and Infrastructure in late January 2016, officials from that division visited the rebuilding works of the container terminal at Port-au- Prince’s International Port, in Haiti, which suffered severe damage during the earthquake of 2010.
Accompanied by representatives of that country’s National Port Authority (NPA), the experts viewed the first 150 linear meters (of 410 meters total) of the terminal’s Northern Wharf, inaugurated on January 22, 2016. This is th…
Road sector authorities and experts from 35 countries will gather until Friday, October 31, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile to analyze the sector’s challenges on the path towards sustainable development.
The officials will analyze along with various industry actors the general issues and main trends in construction and highway management, as well as transportation facilitation, the mitigation of its external impacts and the functioning of public-private alliances.
The meeting of the Council of the World Road Associat…
A meeting of experts was held in Santiago, Chile on 27 and 28 October 1999 to mark the start of the project for the development of the South American Transport Statistics System (SETAS). The main objective of the meeting was to analyse different elements for the development of a SETAS pilot project. The meeting was attended by representatives of Bolivia, Brazil and Chile, the countries chosen to participate in this early stage of the project's development. Officials from the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA), and from the Statistics and Economic Projections Division and the Tr…