IRU/World Bank Road Freight Transport Services Reform shows how efficient trucking facilitates trade, reduces poverty and generates prosperity. Key conclusions highlight the importance of the driver, condition of vehicles, technical inspections and business-enabling regulation.

During IRU President Christian Labrot’s participation at the Belt & Road Forum in China, he met with the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) to discuss China’s road transport potential for boosting international trade in the region – with TIR key to facilitating growth.

Views - Absatov Yerlan Sembekovich Director of the Department of Economic Integration of the Ministry of Investments and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan gives insight into trade with China, the impact of TIR implementation in China and Kazakhstan’s road transport and transit industry.

The EU has a remarkably versatile truck fleet consisting of over 6.75 million vehicles. This IRU Intelligence Briefing unpacks this figure, looking at vehicle age, distribution, configuration, usage versus capacity, and much more.

The UK government has organised a series of webinars in EU countries to raise awareness of post-Brexit trade solutions, in particular TIR. 

Boosting Bangladesh-India trade was on the agenda of a recent high-level event organised with IRU member FICCI, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Bangladesh and the Federation of Freight Forwarders’ Associations in India (FFFAI). 

A new intermodal TIR route from Russia to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set to boost trade, with at least a 50% reduction in transport times and 15% reduction in costs, compared to the traditional routes.