14 Abr 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Documento de trabajo
In the last few months, the world has witnessed and continue to witness a drastic change in our daily lives, which has also caused great impacts on business, trade, and shipping. The outbreak of a pandemic changed all economic and trade expectations for 2020. From a forecast of 3.6% growth in container trade worldwide in the last quarter of 2019, to 2.5% in January 2020, new projections have lowered down expectations to -4.9%. This drop is partially explained, apart from the pandemic, by the continuing increase of blank sails[1] and labour restrictions.
Several countries have been implementing…
14 Abr 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Nota informativa
In the last few months, the world has witnessed and continue to witness a drastic change in our daily lives, which has also caused great impacts on business, trade, and shipping. The outbreak of a pandemic changed all economic and trade expectations for 2020. From a forecast of 3.6% growth in container trade worldwide in the last quarter of 2019, to 2.5% in January 2020, new projections have lowered down expectations to -4.9%. This drop is partially explained, apart from the pandemic, by the continuing increase of blank sails[1] and labour restrictions.
Several countries have been implementing…
15 Mayo 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Publicación
This report analyses the state of international maritime trade and port activity for the period 2023–2024. It highlights recovery trends, structural challenges and new disruptions impacting the sector. Consistent with the analysis in the previous report, this report examines the effects of global events, such as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and persistent geopolitical tensions, the repercussions of which continue to impact supply chains. It also identifies emerging trends in logistics management and factors behind fluctuations in port activity and provides an analysis of the mar…
20 Feb 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Publicación
The Sustainable Inland Transport Connectivity Indicators (SITCIN) evaluate the efficiency of transport systems and the alignment of legal frameworks with international legal instruments for transport and border-crossing facilitation. SITCIN enables countries to track their progress in areas such as the implementation of regional or international conventions on transport, harmonization of national rules with UN legal instruments, achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Vienna Programme of Action. This tool was developed as part of the United Nations Development Account (UND…
4 Ene 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Publicación
In 2020, Paraguay’s National Connectivity Report was prepared as part of the United Nations Development Account project “Sustainable transport connectivity and implementation of transport-related SDGs in selected landlocked and transit/bridging countries”. The report contains 161 indicators that assess rail, road, and inland waterway transport in Paraguay, concerning areas such as the regulatory and administrative framework for border crossings, quality of transport infrastructure, quality of regulations on transport of dangerous goods and perishable foodstuffs, and efforts to reduce emissions…
The national road traffic enforcement rules are established in the 1997 Brazilian Traffic Code and in the regulations of the National Traffic Council (CONTRAN). The National Road Safety Plan 2019-2028 contain the necessary mechanisms for effective compliance with the obligations and targets of the National Traffic System bodies. This project aims to contribute to decreasing road traffic deaths and injuries by means of technical assistance to support and to strengthen ongoing road traffic enforcement activities and enhancing the capacity of traffic officers at the state level to implement …
17 Feb 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:31
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Columna de opinión
If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people globally, what would you say? Malaria? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all up there, but no, it’s road crashes. Cars have been around for over 120 years, and we know how to prevent these tragedies. Yet road crashes still claim more than two lives every minute, and nearly 1.2 million lives every year. If these deaths were caused by a virus, it would be called a pandemic and the world would scramble to develop vaccines to prevent them. And yet reducing road deaths has long been overlooked, misunderstood …
29 Abr 2020, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Nota informativa
The air transport industry is deemed essential in the face of the current outbreak, being the means of transport that regularly distributes crucial goods such as medical equipment, inputs and supplies, as well as other essential assets for the functioning of a country. However, since the beginning of the pandemic, it has displayed an overall downturn. The air cargo performance demonstrated a severe capacity shortfall at a global scale:
✓ Global demand, which includes both domestic and international markets, fell by 15.2% in March compared to the previous year (-15.8% for internatio…
8 - 09 Ago
2019, 04:30 - 14:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The capacity-building workshop bringed together international experts and representatives from eleven Caribbean English-speaking countries Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana, Saint Lucía, Saint Kitts, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, to discuss safer systems approaches and urban mobility policies; promoting a stronger regulatory and enforcement framework; optimizing data management for improved planning and policy making; as well as best practices for vehicle safety, including powered motor cycles. …
Mr. Representative of DESA
Mr. Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Ms. Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Authorities and representatives of governments, international organizations and the United Nations System
Dear Colleagues,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is an honour for me to be here today.
The agenda that brings us together is indeed ambitious. As other regions in th…
Este Boletín FAL presenta algunas de las características y los desafíos de las inversiones públicas en infraestructura mediante la aplicación de esquemas de asociaciones público-privadas en América Latina y el Caribe. Asimismo, se discute acerca del desempeño que han tenido las instituciones, la relevancia de elevar el estándar de las inversiones en infraestructura, sean éstas públicas o privadas, bajo enfoques orientados al desarrollo sostenible. Se subraya la importancia de la participación de las partes involucradas a lo largo del ciclo de vida del proyecto como requisito particularmente de…
5 - 06 Dic
2019, 06:00 - 15:00
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Evento (Meetings of the United Nations system)
The comprehensive high-level midterm review on the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014–2024, was held on 5 and 6 December 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York. The midterm review analyzed the status of implementation of the Vienna Programme and was a forum to share best practices and lessons learnt, identify remaining obstacles and constraints encountered and the actions needed to accelerate the implementation of the Programme.
In the occasion, the Unit also participated in the side event: Trade facilita…
30 Nov 2019, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:34
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Publicación
This report was prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Office for the High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and the Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) in preparation for the midterm review meeting of the Vienna Programme of Action (VPoA) for Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2014-2024 in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
The report is structured as follows: the first section assesses the alignment between the objectives and priorities set forward in the 2030 Agenda for Sust…