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Central America 's Logistic Corridor: A Qualitative Leap in Service Endowment for the Region's External Trade (Spanish)

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204	Central America 's Logistic Corridor: A Qualitative Leap in Service Endowment for the Region's External Trade (Spanish)	- SIECA-INCAE
The advantages resulting from regionally integrated multimodal transportation have not been yet fully internalized in Central America . For the first time, with the appearance of COMITRAN and the adoption of a Policy, Strategy, and Organization Framework at the 27 th . Meeting of the Sectoral Council of Transportation Ministers in April 1997, the private sector's involvement in financing and developing investment in infrastructure at the region is considered. That same year, the Presidents of Central America asked the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) a study that finally confirmed the viability of the public works concession mode to refurbish and preserve a Regional Road Corridor. The Central American Logistic Corridor is thought of as an economic channel aimed at turning the region into an area of world-class logistic activity, through an infrastructure program and the development of facilities and logistic services favoring international trade. This paper analyzes the Central American Logistic Corridor background, implementation strategy, and the project itself. In addition, it ponders the road infrastructure requirements and the development of regional logistic services to advance the project and its function as facilitator of trade, and concludes with follow-up recommendations for the project plus a number of final comments.
April, 1999	55 Pages

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