Eurasian Connection : Supply-Chain Efficiency along the Modern Silk Route through Central Asia.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Moving on a Connectivity Agenda -- Drivers for Change -- Measures to Improve Connectivity -- Improving the Quality of Transport Links and Cross-Border Connectivity -- Moving Containers Efficiently: Europe and East Asia Rail Freight -- Enhancing the Private Sector in Logistics Services -- Expanding Trade and Transit Facilitation Initiatives -- Notes -- Reference -- Chapter 1 From the Old to the Modern Silk Route -- Looking Back at the Old Silk Road -- The Eurasian Connection Nowadays -- The Silk Route Countries: Trade and Physical Networks -- Establishing Reliable Supply Chains -- Notes -- Reference -- Chapter 2 Connecting Central Asia to the World -- Pattern of Trade along the Modern Silk Route -- Trade Costs Patterns along the Modern Silk Route -- Supply-Chain Performance in Central Asia -- Two Game Changers: The Customs Union and the Rise of Trade with China -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Rail Freight Transit along the Modern Silk Route -- Rail Transport as the Backbone of Central Asian Connectivity -- Transit Trade (Transcontinental): Institutional Arrangements -- Euro-Asian (Transcontinental) Transit Trade along the Modern Silk Route -- Long-Distance Silk Route to Complement Shipping: Servicing Niche Markets -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Road Transport Connections along the Modern Silk Route -- Connecting Central Asia at a Regional Level -- Long-Haul Road Freight Transport and Transports Internationaux Routiers -- Framework of International Road Freight Transport and Transit along the Silk Road -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Supply-Chain Efficiency and Logistics Costs -- Logistics and Supply-Chain Efficiency -- Performance of Transcontinental Rail Transit: Europe-Asia.

Performance of Long-Distance Road Transportation: Turkey-Central Asia and Uzbekistan-Russia -- Impact of Supply-Chain Inefficiencies: Logistics Costs -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Underlying Obstacles to Supply-Chain Efficiency -- Fragmentation and Supply-Chain Bottlenecks -- Technical, Commercial, and Operational Constraints: Railways -- Technical, Commercial, and Operational Constraints: Road Transport -- Bottlenecks for Cross-Border Supply Chains and Trade Facilitation -- The Limitations of Cross-Border Cooperation in the Current Institutional Framework -- References -- Chapter 7 Improving the Eurasian Connection -- Challenges and Opportunities in Advancing the Connectivity Agenda -- Implementation Dynamics and Drivers for Change -- Specific Measures to Improve Connectivity -- Summarizing the Impact -- APPENDIX A Overview on Initiatives for Technical and Financial Coordination and Development of Land Routes through Central Asia -- Reference -- APPENDIX B Logistics Performance Index -- Reference -- APPENDIX C Time and Cost of Transport by Road and Rail -- Reference -- APPENDIX D Examples of Road Freight Transportation Prices to and from Main Markets of the Kyrgyz Republic, February-March 2012 -- APPENDIX E Examples of Road Freight Transportation Prices to and from Main Markets of Tajikistan, February 2012 -- Boxes -- Figures -- Map -- Tables -- Back Cover.

The Modern Silk Route is offering a potential land-bridge between China and Europe through Central Asia and Russia that offers a complement to existing shipping routes, and is attracting growing interest by a selected number of multinational companies. However, the main role of the Silk Route is to support the development and integration of the region. Connectivity to the east and west, over exceptionally long distances, is critical to the development of the Central Asian countries, when trading globally and between themselves. Facilitating trade and transportation across many borders, remains a major challenge more than twenty years since the breakup of the former Soviet Union. The book revisits trade and transport connectivity through the Central Asia countries along the old Silk Route, based on knowledge from project implementation and field research. It takes the modern perspective of supply chain efficiency and logistics performance, which depends not only on infrastructure but also markets and policies. Since the breakup of the Former Soviet Union connectivity of Central Asia is a prominent agenda. The focus has been on physical improvements of specific transport corridors. But logistics performance remains very low, caused by inefficiencies, at national levels, of services and of trade and transport agencies, as well as lack of cross-border integration of trade and transit. The book suggests that the policy focus should not be just on physical trade routes. Rather, it stresses the focus on supply chain reliability, and proposes policy packages and enabling implementation practices, consistent across countries in the region in areas such as transportation, customs and border clearance, trade or transit. It also highlights the complementarity of the current initiatives, including the recent development of the Eurasian Customs Union, or the

rising of trade and investment from China.

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