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Pakistan launches first cross-border TIR transport to Afghanistan using trucks
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PAKISTANI transport operator, TCS Logistics, has received a Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR) carnet from IRU member, PNC-ICC. This marks the first Pakistan TIR transport from Karachi heading to Kabul via Peshawar and Jalalabad.
This development follows recent meetings in Istanbul between Afghanistan and Pakistan - where TIR was highlighted as the customs standard to facilitate transport and transit between the two countries and the two TIR stakeholders agreed to initiate test operations from Karachi to Kabul and vice versa, reported AJOT.
Savings in time and costs have already been reported by an Afghan transport operator, which sent three trucks from Torkham, Afghan-Pakistan border crossing point, to Dushanbe, Tajikistan using TIR. TIR was also particularly useful in avoiding large transshipment costs at the border with Tajikistan.
IRU secretary general Umberto de Pretto said: "With the TIR system now live in Pakistan, we will see the potential unleashed for Pakistan to become a pivotal transit country linking China to the Middle East and Africa."
Pakistan Customs transit trade director general Muhammad Javed Ghani said: "The TIR system offers a solution for harmonised processes at borders across the region and we should now see cross border transport and transit become much more streamlined and secured."
"We are delighted to see the first TIR trucks leaving
This development follows recent meetings in Istanbul between Afghanistan and Pakistan - where TIR was highlighted as the customs standard to facilitate transport and transit between the two countries and the two TIR stakeholders agreed to initiate test operations from Karachi to Kabul and vice versa, reported AJOT.
Savings in time and costs have already been reported by an Afghan transport operator, which sent three trucks from Torkham, Afghan-Pakistan border crossing point, to Dushanbe, Tajikistan using TIR. TIR was also particularly useful in avoiding large transshipment costs at the border with Tajikistan.
IRU secretary general Umberto de Pretto said: "With the TIR system now live in Pakistan, we will see the potential unleashed for Pakistan to become a pivotal transit country linking China to the Middle East and Africa."
Pakistan Customs transit trade director general Muhammad Javed Ghani said: "The TIR system offers a solution for harmonised processes at borders across the region and we should now see cross border transport and transit become much more streamlined and secured."
"We are delighted to see the first TIR trucks leaving