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Currently, the region suffers from tremendous transport and transit constraints.
These costs could be halved by better customs, border and transit management, improved transport corridors and more competitive transport services.
The opioid crisis in the US shows no sign of abating, and a significant share of the heroin and fentanyl it consumes comes from Mexico, directly or in transit.
The Dominican Republic’s constitution says explicitly that anyone born on the country’s territory, except infants born to parents who happen to be diplomats or foreigners “in transit” – understood for decades to mean in the country for fewer than 10 days – is a Dominican citizen.
It now deems individuals of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic to have no right to Dominican nationality, because their parents or grandparents, many of them residents for years, if not decades, were supposedly “in transit.”
Today, it functions as an important transit point for drugs shipped from South America to the US.
At the same time, efforts are needed to strengthen deterrence near and en route to Europe’s borders, through partnerships with major source and transit countries.
Likewise, Europe’s energy security depends on cooperation with Turkey on transit of oil and natural gas from Central Asia and the Middle East.
These zones should be established in both frontline and transit countries.
The Schengen Agreement providing for passport-free transit is what makes freedom of movement for people meaningful.
As for mobility in a pedestrian city, it is possible to structure low-cost bus-based transit systems and to severely restrict car use during peak hours.
More than $150 million is being spent to help transit systems in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut prevent and respond to terrorist attacks.
Migrant smuggling is a worldwide phenomenon, affecting almost every state as a country of origin, transit, or destination.
The economic benefits of such a strategy for Senegal are potentially vast: new industries in mineral processing, transport, and shipping, bringing higher-value-added employment; budget revenues from transit fees for minerals exports and pipelines; and improved infrastructure connecting the country’s rural heartland to Dakar and the coast.
Its location makes it vulnerable to being exploited as a transit point between the Latin American and Asian production centers and consumer markets in Europe and the United States.
But, as the experience of Central America shows, transit countries do not serve only as a corridor for drugs.
The US and Europe should take the lead in expanding the IEA’s membership to include China, India, Russia, and other non-OECD countries, and in elevating it, along with an expanded Energy Charter Treaty, as a forum for energy security through negotiation among suppliers, consumers, and transit countries.
Europe’s leaders should engage in frank discussions about where European and Russian interests converge or differ, and these discussions should include regional neighbors that are both producer and transit nations, like my own country, Ukraine.
The EU-Turkey deal has been so good for Turkey that other transit countries have taken notice.
Complicated lines of transport using transit countries are often used.
That means putting flesh on the bones of the Bali Process cooperation framework, which was agreed in 2011 by ministers representing all of the relevant source, transit, and target countries in the region and beyond, including – crucially – Indonesia and Malaysia (the key transit countries en route to Australia).
Beyond transforming the city’s harbor district into a highly desirable area, the fund enabled the government to build a transit system, all without dipping into tax revenues.
We must put in place policies to manage the flows of people in ways that benefit migrants’ countries of origin, transit, and destination.
While the Islamists have been temporarily defeated, they are well armed and receive supplies from Libya via Algeria, which has suppressed Islamists at home but seems to turn a blind eye to their transit through its territory.
Specifically, the EU must develop a diplomatic strategy aimed at strengthening cooperation with all major energy producing, transit, and consumer countries, while creating within the Union a mutually beneficial, open, transparent, and stable energy sector based on reciprocity.
Traffic-clogged cities need better public transportation, and financing the expansion of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems is a proven way to reduce congestion, emissions, and commuting costs.
In addition to lowering carbon-dioxide emissions and improving air quality, the city’s new transit system also slashed travel times by an average of 30% and cut transport costs for low-income households along the route by as much as 31%.
And many municipal governments have joined the fight against carbon emissions by expanding mass transit and making government buildings more energy efficient.
This is a vital condition for keeping the region Russian, and special EU transit visas should therefore be granted to Kaliningrad's residents in order to ensure simplified travel through adjacent EU countries.
The report breaks down the issue in a compelling way: by countries (producers, transit states, consumers, or all of these); by substances (marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and synthetic drugs); by links among these illicit substances; and by the consequences of consumption, production, or trade of each drug for societies, institutions, and international relations.
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