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TRUCKING INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE * Israel - Russia
* Israeli trucking industry reaps benefits of Mideast unrest
Haifa,Israel -Reuters/Haaretz, by Ari Rabinovitch and Tova Cohen -Jul. 1, 2014: -- The hydraulic ramp of a Turkish freighter taps down on the eastern Mediterranean port of Haifa and, under a full moon, 37 trucks roll off onto an otherwise empty pier... In a convoy that stretches hundreds of meters, the trucks travel east across northern Israel, bringing goods from Europe to customers in Jordan and beyond... Until three years ago the cargo these trucks carry - fruits, cheese, raw material for the textile industry, spare parts, and second-hand trucks - would have come through Syria. But civil war has made that journey too perilous... Israel plans to build two $1 billion ports to be run by foreign operators - one in Haifa, the other 80 km (50 miles) south in Ashdod. The new Haifa port will have a capacity for 1.5 million containers a year, roughly doubling current levels... The trade, though still small, is growing enough to encourage long-held Israeli hopes that it can become a commercial gateway to the Arab world...
* Russia - Backs away from rejection of Europe-wide trucking system
Geneva,Suisse -Reuters, by Tom Miles and Larry King -Jun 30, 2014: -- Russia's Customs Service made a last-minute concession on Monday to stop Russia from being ejected by a U.N.-backed customs system that has expedited European trucking for 60 years... The TIR system speeds up cross-border trade because it allows trucks to be sealed when they start their journey and to cross multiple borders without undergoing customs checks, saving time and money... But the system relies on mutual recognition of national trucking bodies, which Russia had jeopardised by announcing that it would replace its national body, ASMAP, with Rostek, a subsidiary of Russian Customs that charged higher fees... Without ASMAP, European trucks arriving in Russia would have faced higher costs and long waits at the border. But crossing Russia's border is still not likely to be plain sailing straight away, the International Road Transport Union said...
... As we approached that border from Russia into Latvia there was a long line of trucks but nothing like the 49 Kilometres that were waiting to enter Russia from Latvia. The distance we measured; and yes, 49 kilometres... There must have been thousands of trucks and one can only imaging the costs of all that freight standing idle for days. It is a fair indication of the exploding demand in Russia for foreign goods and the rapid growth of the economy...
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