Saturday 4 December 2010

THE NEW SILK ROAD

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ASIAN HIGHWAY HAS A LONG WAY TO GO

The Economic Times, December 4, 2010

Since the fabled Silk Road fell into disuse some six centuries ago, Asian commerce has been largely carried by sea. Today, as dynamic and resurgent Asia finds trade within the region growing at almost twice the pace of trade with the outside world, there is a flurry of multimodal connectivity projects involving road, rail, air, pipeline and shipping infrastructure across the region.

The Asian highway (AH) network has the potential of an important building block for pan-Asia integrated intermodal transport system.

Expanded in stages, now comprising over 141,000 km of roads through 32 of the Unescap member countries, AH would extend from Tokyo in the east to Kapikule (Turkey) in the West, and from St Petersburg in the north to Denpasar (Indonesia) in the south. The initial AH routes AH1 and AH2 aimed at linking Bangkok with Tehran through Yangon, Dhaka, New Delhi, Rawalpindi and Kabul, with further connections to Turkey and the E-roads system in Europe.

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