Bi-annual Meeting of the Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade, 9-10 of June,2008,Cape Town,South Africa

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Dear colleagues,

 

I am pleased to inform you that the next meeting of the Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade (GFP) will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 9-10 of June, 2008.  

 

The meeting will take place immediately prior to the OECD Regional Forum on Trade Facilitation (11-12 June) and just before the meeting of the Bocksburg Group (13 June, to be confirmed). As such, we hope that this meeting will attract a larger number of participants from both the public and the private sector.

 

We will devote some time to the important issue of improving transit operations. The Bank will also present some initial findings of a major global transit project it has recently commissioned. These should act as catalysts for further discussion. We hope that GFP members will see this meeting as a chance to support the first GFP to be conducted in the developing world by attending in person and taking this opportunity to further discuss ways in which we can increase the participation of developing countries in future GFP activities.

 

AGENDA

 

Monday, June 9, 2008

08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:30	Welcome Address Marc Juhel/Mona Haddad, World Bank
09:30 - 12:00	Improving Transit Operations Trade and Transport for Landlocked Developing Countries: A Progress Report; Global Transit Project; Transit Regime: A Global Benchmarking World Bank (Robin Carruthers)
11:00 - 11:15	Coffee Break
	Logistics Performance Index (LPI) World Bank (Monica Alina Mustra)
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:00	Impact of New Initiatives Review of Costs of Compliance with New International Freight Transport Security Requirements World Bank (Jean-François Marteau)
	TRIST - A New Tool to Simulate the Impacts of Tariff Reform World Bank (Paul Brenton)
14:00 - 15:30	Africa, Challenges and Opportunities in Trade Facilitation One Stop Border Post (OSBP) Project Uganda Revenue Authority (Peter Malinga)
	Effectiveness of Regional Transit: Case Studies in Africa World Bank (Jean-François Marteau)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Brief on the Northern Corridor and NCTTCA Programs and Activities Transit Transport Coordination Authority (TTC/NC)/ISTED (Olivier Hartmann)
	Preparing for the WTO Trade Facilitation Needs Assessment - The Experience of UNCTAD UNCTAD (Tom Butterly)
18:00 - 20:00	Reception

 

Tuesday, June 10, 2008  

08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 11:00	Perspectives on Assessing Needs Cost Analysis of Trade Facilitation OECD (Evdokia Moise)
	UN/CEFACT Trade Facilitation Implementation Guide-Information from UN/CEFACT or UNECE Secretariat UNECE (Virginia Cram-Martos)
11:00 - 11:15	Coffee Break
	Private Sector's Perspectives SITPRO (Shondeep Banerji)
	Open Trade Gate Sweden National Board of Trade (Sonia Albarello)
	EU , WTO Negotiations and Importance of Article V European Commission (John Malone)
11:15 - 11:30	Closing Session
11:30 - 12:15	Role of GFP in Africa How Africa Can Benefit from Participation in GFP and Trade Facilitation GAINDE (Ibrahima Nour Edine Diagne)
	Discussion - What next for the GFP World Bank
12:15 - 12:45	Lunch
13:00 - 16:30	Visit to Port of Cape Town All Registered Participants
13:00 - 14:30	Presentations (SARS Facilitator) Venue:  10th Floor in the Tower at Port Control Port Authority (Coen Birkenstock) Business, Chamber of Commerce (Mike Walwyn) Customs (Beyers Theron)
	Discussion
14:30 - 16:30	Port Tour led by SARS

                                  

 

Location

Cape Town, South Africa 

Participants

GFP Partners 

Workgroups

 

Activities

GFP Gatherings  

Event Time

8:30am - 5:00pm 

Event date

from Jun 09, 2008 to Jun 10, 2008 

Topics

A Business Prospective on Capacity Building for Trade Facilitation ,
Admission of electronic documents ,
Air Transport and Airport Operations ,
Aligned Trade Documents ,
Bilateral and regional transit agreements ,
Border Agency Modernization ,
Border performance monitoring systems ,
Building TTF Partnerships ,
Cargo and vehicle tracking ,
Commercial trade practices ,
Customs audit based controls ,
Customs Issues ,
Customs modernisation ,
Customs procedures ,
Customs valuation ,
Dangerous goods ,
Economic Development and Trade Facilitation ,
Economic importance of transit for destination and transit countries ,
Efficiency of transport intermediaries ,
Electronic commerce and business ,
Electronic standards/EDI ,
E-signature and certification authorities ,
Facilitation and supply chain management ,
Free trade agreements ,
Harmonized System ,
Information technology for Customs ,
Inland Water Transport ,
Insurance ,
Integrity within Customs ,
Landlocked countries access : corridor arrangements ,
Maritime Transport and Port Operations ,
Market access ,
Measuring the economic impact of trade facilitation ,
Movement of persons ,
Multilateral trade negotiations ,
Multimodal transport ,
Other Trade Facilitation Aspects ,
Paperless trade ,
Payments ,
Public Policies in Freight Transport Management ,
Public-private partnerships ,
Rail Transport ,
Regional Partnerships ,
Regional transport integration ,
Revised Kyoto Convention ,
Risk assessment methods ,
Rules of origin ,
Security and facilitation of the international trade supply chain ,
Standards and Conformity Assessment ,
Technology platforms ,
The problems of landlocked countries ,
Trade Facilitation and competitiveness ,
Trade Facilitation and SME development ,
Trade facilitation audits ,
Trade Facilitation through Security ,
Trade facilitation, income distribution and poverty reduction ,
Trade Finance ,
Trade Liberalization and Facilitation ,
Trade logistics and developing countries ,
Trade Logistics and Facilitation ,
Trade Logistics practical measures ,
Trade logistics' statistics ,
Trade Policies and Non-Tariff Barriers ,
Transit ,
Transit facilitation and logistics ,
Transit guarantee systems ,
Transport Operations ,
Trip permits ,
TTF performance measurement ,
TTF promotion ,
Use of ICT for Facilitation ,
Vehicle standards ,
Waste products ,
WCO Columbus Program ,
WTO Trade Facilitation Negotiations  

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