Eurasia has a strategic transit location at the crossroads of key transport and trade corridors. Hard infrastructure linking the modes is imperative for transport connectivity. It should be accompanied by the necessary soft infrastructure to speed up border crossings and minimalise congestion at ports and terminals.
As digital momentum builds, IRU is focused on rolling out digital TIR and e-CMR, the consignment note, thus paving the way to fully digital transport corridors.
IRU in Eurasia
In a region where two thirds of the countries are landlocked, road transport plays a pivotal role in connecting local businesses to the global markets. IRU helps Eurasian countries with policy making, professional driver training and infrastructure.
Being the bridge between Europe and Asia, the region includes Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Georgia, six countries from the Economic Cooperation Organization region, and countries in Central Asia. The overriding characteristic of this region is that each country has different levels of development, in terms of its road transport operations and infrastructure.
Modernising roadside and ancillary infrastructures, implementing visa procedures for drivers and training all levels of the workforce are some of the region’s priorities to increase connectivity to European and Asian markets.
IRU’s Academy Associate Training Institutes and the organisation’s cooperation with local authorities towards unifying regulations and permits strive to help Eurasia achieve its connectivity and mobility goals.
Eurasia has a strategic transit location at the crossroads of key transport and trade corridors. Hard infrastructure linking the modes is imperative for transport connectivity. It should be accompanied by the necessary soft infrastructure to speed up border crossings and minimalise congestion at ports and terminals.
As digital momentum builds, IRU is focused on rolling out digital TIR and e-CMR, the consignment note, thus paving the way to fully digital transport corridors.
IRU regional office
General Delegate: Vadim Zakharenko
Office 1421, entr. 6
World Trade Center
12 Krasnopresnenskaya nab.
Moscow 123610, Russia
Tel: +7-495-258 17 59
Regional news
23 Apr 2021 Dushanbe
IRU partners with Asian Development Bank on transport digitalisation
15 Apr 2021 Tehran
IRU and UNECE drive transport digitalisation in the ECO region
25 Mar 2021 Bandar Abbas
TIR opens new faster route from Russia to UAE
15 Mar 2021 Geneva
IRU and Eurasian regional bodies call for coordinated government action on COVID-19
11 Mar 2021 Shanghai
IRU joins forces with SCO to drive transport digitalisation across Asia
Innovation
New Eurasian Land Transport Initiative (NELTI)
With China’s Belt and Road initiatives moving ahead, IRU’s longstanding, prescient work to reopen ancient Silk Road trade routes linking Asia to Europe across Eurasia has gathered ground and has set the foundations in place for the recent developments now transforming trade prospects for the region.
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China-Russia trade corridor pilot caravan
See the latest news on China-Russia trade corridor pilot caravan launched ahead of TIR implementation
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Reopening the Silk Road
The Silk Road is a key artery connecting the east and the west, by road. IRU is working to open up this important ancient trade route.
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IRU members in Eurasia
Baku
ABADA
Dushanbe
ABBAT
Yerevan
AIRCA
Tashkent
AIRCUZ
Bishkek
AIRTO-KR
Chisinau
AITA
Moscow
ASMAP
Kiev
ASMAP UA
Minsk
BAMAP
Tbilisi
GIRCA
Nur-Sultan
KAZATO
Moscow
Rosgosstrakh
Ashgabat
THADA
IRU partners in Eurasia