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Fostering prosperty
| 题名： | Fostering prosperty |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | INES NASTALI |
| 摘要： | Rebeca Grynspan has been the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) eighth secretary general since 13 September 2021. The Costa Rican is the first woman to lead the organization. Over the past six months, Grynspan has set out her plans for the organization's path forward, one of which is to reduce transaction costs for trade in developing states and ease trade facilitation. This is something that the member states, especially small island states, have asked for. Second on the list is to strengthen UNCTAD's statistical work. "Part of my message is that UNCTAD is a statistical powerhouse. And I will establish an independent statistical unit in UNCTAD within the division of trade and logistics," Grynspan said to P&H. Such news is welcomed by IAPH managing director, Patrick Verhoeven, who remarked that the maritime industry is "notorious" for its lack of statistical and comparable data. "I think UNCTAD is one of the few institutes that collects more than just cargo statistics," he said. Fittingly, the IAPH has its own ambitions to increase the amount of port operational data via its World Ports Tracker, which will officially be launched during the World Ports Conference in Vancouver from 16 to 18 May. The COVID-19 pandemic also brought to light "the asymmetries in this area. We know how important the efficiency in ports is for development. On one hand you have modern infrastructure and in developing countries, in least developed and small island states, they don't have strength in volume. So, the gaps are widening. But how can we close those gaps?" asked the UNCTAD secretary general. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Ports & harbors |
| 卷： | 67 |
| 期： | 2 |
| 页码： | 4-7 |
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