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In the 1830’s and 1840’s, a number of states had over-invested in the leading transport technology of the time – canals.
Imagine, for example, that Germany borrows at a 1% fixed real interest rate with a ten-year maturity and invests the proceeds in repairing domestic transport infrastructure.
Other children load and transport items in the markets, where they must pull carts weighing 60-70 kilograms and carry boxes weighing 15 kilograms in temperatures of 50 degrees centigrade.
How will he manage the growing middle class’s expectations of better infrastructure, expanded access to health care and education, uninterrupted electricity and water supplies, and more efficient transport facilities?
The EU also suffers from a well-known lack of capacity in strategic air transport, in-theater air transport, and combat support.
When things can be made, used, broken/worn out, and recycled closer to home, the need for transport is reduced dramatically.
Public transport closed, and many people couldn’t get to their jobs.
Just as Manchester Airport has emerged as a transport hub serving the Northern Powerhouse, the arena plays a similar role in terms of live entertainment.
They point to the success of efforts to shut down illegal banking transactions and to the Proliferation Security Initiative, in which other countries agree to interdict transport of nuclear materials.
The only business coverage tends to focus on the financial impact caused by the disruption of transport links such as the port of Calais.
Containing a disease or a terrorist threat by curtailing international travel or transport would devastate the world economy.
Even if this deal didn’t work out for the US, it remains a leading arms supplier to India, having won bids to provide ships, reconnaissance aircraft, and advanced transport planes.
At the same time, the need to counter the economic crisis and fight climate change, together with an array of fresh incentives, new directives, and scientific breakthroughs, will lead to substantial progress toward “greening” agriculture, industry, transport, construction, energy, and so on.
India needs better roads and ports to enable efficient transport of products domestically and to the rest of the world.
Central Asian countries allow NATO members and partners to transport supplies through their territory to support military forces in Afghanistan – an essential complement to the flow of supplies to the ISAF through Pakistan, which is vulnerable to tensions with the United States.
Two-thirds of electricity generation, and nearly 95% of the energy consumed by the world’s transport systems, comes from fossil fuels.
These include cold chains to preserve vaccines during transport from factories to patients; established “immunization days” and negotiated “days of tranquility” in conflict zones, when vaccinations can be administered; trained health-care workers; and systems for surveillance, laboratory analysis, and rapid response.
Radical adjustments will be needed in the way we live, work, produce, consume, generate our energy, transport ourselves, and design our cities.
Given that most of the world’s CO2 emissions stem from energy production and transport, it is critical to monitor these changes closely.
This is unlikely to change in the near future, as liquefaction and transport costs will keep LNG prices high even if the US issues more export permits.
But developing countries often have limited cold-storage capacities or an inability to transport liquid in bulk.
Yet other kinds of maps are needed if we are on a bike, on foot, or planning to take public transport.
Punishing this airline will only reduce competition in the airline industry, an outcome that, Mario Monti, the EU competition commissioner, and Loyola de Palacio, the EU transport commissioner, cannot possibly want.
Although China is not situated along the “Northern Route” through which Afghan narcotics traditionally enter Central Asia and Europe, new trafficking networks have developed since 2005 that transport illicit drugs from Afghanistan through Pakistan and Central Asia into China.
We must overshoot our targets by advancing clean energy, clean transport, and clean industry.
Manufacturing requires dedicated urban space that is adequately connected to power, water, transport, logistics, security, and a diverse labor force.
Major hurdles include poor transport connectivity and stifling non-tariff barriers, which impede growth and undermine welfare in Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and north-eastern India.
The government would borrow the money directly from the central bank and use it to build houses, renew transport systems, invest in energy-saving technologies, and so forth.
Electrification of road transport will play a crucial role in delivering improved local air quality, and, when combined with increasingly green electricity, reducing CO2 emissions.
In electric transport, Chinese companies are as well placed as their European and American counterparts to innovate and be globally competitive.
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