SummaryandRecommendations-HaciendayFinanzas.docVIP

Summary and Recommendations The issue on transport improvements consists of two sub-issues: Container transportation systems development; The development of trunk routes between Argentina and Brazil/Chile, both of which are essential to support industrial development and trade promotion in Argentina. Concerning the first issue in the above on Container Transportation Systems Development, the study focuses on assessing what is needed to modernize existing facilities, better container handling operations and management, upgraded information flow, and methods for financing their development, which are basic measures for trade promotion, particularly with East Asian markets. The study refers to the experiences of East Asian and Pacific ports, which are now vigorously pursuing the new concept of the roles of ports in the 21st century and leading the worlds trend of containerization. On the second issue, related to the Development of Trunk Routes between Argentina and Brazil/Chile, the study assesses the requirements for improvements to the transport infrastructure and better transport services and analyzes various transport development issues. The development of Argentina - Brazil/Chile trunk routes will create transcontinental corridors connecting the MERCOSUR countries along them and both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and will open up new economic opportunities for countries and regions along those routes. The study refers to the experiences of coordinated transport system improvements in the European Union, which devised the Common Transport Policy, cross-border controls, and cabotage operations and developed common land transport networks. They will be good precedents for preparing the common transport policy for MERCOSUR countries. 1. Development of Container Transportation Systems Issues 1.1 Issues Since the beginning of the 1960s, containers have brought about fundamental changes in the international economy trade, particularly in the concept