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…
29 Jul 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:38
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Nota informativa
This document synthesizes the most pertinent findings of a survey of over 41 container terminals around the world of which 30 are located in Latin America and the Caribbean and represent 1/3 of the regional annual container throughput in 2014.
The results are part of a global study on energy consumption in terminals and ports of all kinds. Follow ‐ up publications including a larger set of countries as well as with specifications for bulk cargo, liquids and gas are under way. Furthermore, sub ‐ regional and national seminars are envisaged over the course of the year to present the study’s resu…
1 Oct 2014, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:19
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Publicación
Much analysis and proposals on sustainable transport policies have been developed around the world, both at government and research institutions. It is clear that no action will provide the single solution and it is imperative to act simultaneously on: i) improvement of technology in vehicles, leading to increased energy efficiency; ii) the change in driver behavior, to use less fuel per kilometer; iii) reducing the distances traveled per vehicle; and iv) a change in the type of travels towards more sustainable modes of transport.In general, the recommendations for energy efficiency in transpo…
1 Abr 1999, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Publicación
The Latin American railways faced serious competition from another means of land transport for the first time in the 1930s, and one of the results of this was a significant loss of income from the transport of products of relatively high unit value. This income had covered their fixed costs in terms of management and infrastructure. The financial difficulties of the railway companies drove them to seek aid from the State sector, but in subsequent decades governments gradually lost interest in them because of their financial deficits and dwindling importance in the national economy. The service…
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 …
15 Jun 2017, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:41
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Noticias
Como parte de las acciones de cooperación que se impulsan en el marco del Proyecto de Integración y Desarrollo de Mesoamérica en materia de transporte, movilidad y logística, se llevó a cabo el 13 y 14 de junio el Taller nacional de México sobre Políticas Integradas y Sostenibles de Logística, en las instalaciones del Instituto Mexicano de Transporte (IMT) en Sanfandila, Querétaro, México.
El foro fue co-financiado y co-organizado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID) y el Instituto Mexi…
En este boletín FAL se presenta una perspectiva teórica y de políticas sobre la gobernanza del transporte. El documento resume los conceptos clave relacionados con la gobernanza y luego analiza cómo se ha abordado en los estudios sobre el transporte. A continuación, se analizan ejemplos de cómo se ha tratado este tema en iniciativas y foros internacionales en materia de políticas, tanto a nivel global como regional. El apartado final formula algunas propuestas para el diálogo sobre políticas en relación con la gobernanza del transporte en América Latina y el Caribe.…
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 …
28 - 29 Nov
2017, 05:30 - 11:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
Implemented under the ECLAC/ United Nations Development Account project: Logistics integration for a more sustainable exploitation of natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean…
Implemented under the ECLAC/ United Nations Development Account project: Logistics integration for a more sustainable exploitation of natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean…
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. …
14 Jun 2018, 10:00 - 13:30
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The XXVI Meeting of the Special Committee for Transport of the ACS was held on June 14th, 2018 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Meeting was Chaired by Panama, Chair of the Committee for the period 2018-2019 with the presence of the Dra. June Soomer, General Secretary of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) an organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean.
The meeting was attended by ambassadors and officials of the embassies of the following countries: Antigua & Barbuda…
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…
21 Nov 2024, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:38
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Comunicado de prensa
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) reafirmó su compromiso con el desarrollo productivo, inclusivo y sostenible de Brasil, y de toda la región, a través de una serie de iniciativas concretas de cooperación y asistencia técnica orientadas al fortalecimiento de las capacidades productivas, tecnológicas e institucionales del país sudamericano.
En visita oficial a Brasilia el 20 y 21 de noviembre, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL, destacó el rol de Brasil en el actual escenario económico y geopolítico mundial y reiteró la necesidad de supera…