The International Road Transport Union is an international road transport alliance that manages the operation of international transport companies or TIR. It is seeking to diversify its cooperation with Chinese customs through more convenient road transport to further promote trade in goods. on Wednesday.
Since the implementation of the TIR transport initiative in China and the global applicable international customs transit and guarantee system, in May last year, Ereenhot and Manzhouli in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Horgos and Irkeshtam in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have been opened. Applicable to TIR, which has reduced the financial and time costs of freight between China and its trading partners in the EU, Russia and Central Asia.
Umberto de Pretto, secretary-general of the Geneva-based organization, said that IRU is looking for more Chinese ports for TIR.
TIR is currently the only global customs transport system for cross-border transport of goods. The network supports trade and development for more than 70 years and has 76 parties, managed by the UN TIR Convention and managed by IRU. China approved the “United Nations TIR Convention” in 2016 and became the 70th Party.
“Now we can ship trucks from China to Europe within 12 days, from southern China to Spain, this is the longest road you can go, it is 16 days, it is very fast,” Pretto said, adding. TIR services are transported to the continents through a customs-controlled sealed load bay through a multilateral, mutually recognized system.
He said that cooperation with the General Administration of Customs and other government departments has further helped China to increase trade volume through road transport and achieved success.
This is the second time that Pretto has participated in the Belt and Road International Cooperation Forum. He said that he is very happy to see that BRI’s vision has become a reality, especially in terms of infrastructure to strengthen connectivity.
“At IRU, we appreciate every millimeter of road because it will make it easier for us to complete our work,” he said.
Luo Renjian, a researcher at the Transportation Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, said: “This will promote trade between China and the “One Belt, One Road” related economies to obtain economic and development returns for international road transport. He said that rapid TIR development also promotes Many member economies of the European Union and logistics companies in Russia and Central Asia.
“As many countries involved in BRI development still rely on trucks and coaches to transport goods and people, in the long run, the demand for road transport and modern road infrastructure remains attractive to logistics companies and facility project contractors,” he said. Over.
