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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. The Greater Mekong Sub-region of Southeast Asia: Improving Logistics Connectivity

Author : Ruth Banomyong

Published in: Handbook of Global Logistics

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

Traders in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) require efficient logistics services that can move their goods to the proper place, at the promised time, in the right condition, and at a suitable price. The GMS in Southeast Asia is composed of Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, as well as Yunnan Province and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. It is, therefore, of great importance that regional linkages among neighbouring countries be enhanced, in order to facilitate trade and develop logistics for better access to the “global” market. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a description and rating of the GMS logistics system. The Greater Mekong Sub-region has focused on an “economic corridor” approach to economic integration; assessment of the logistics performance of these corridors is thus needed. Even though there is a GMS agreement that was ratified to facilitate the crossing of borders, it was still observed during our study that the weakest links in the various economic corridors remain the border crossings.

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Footnotes
1
www.​adb.​org/​GMS accessed on January 15, 2011.
 
4
ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) is a regional economic grouping that is composed of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
 
5
8th GMS Ministerial Meeting, Manila, 1998.
 
6
The individual cost- and time-elements, upon which Figs. 4.6 and 4.7 are based, are contained in Tables 4.15, 4.16 and 4.17 of the Appendix.
 
7
The Cross Border Transport Agreement (CBTA) is a regional transport and transit agreement that is supposed to facilitate the movement of people, freight and vehicles within the GMS area. One of the main contributions of the CBTA is the requirement for single-stop inspection at border crossings. This single-stop restriction will reduce cost and time at those crossings.
 
8
The longest tunnel in Southeast Asia.
 
9
The visit to Burma (i.e. Myanmar) in November 2011 by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the first in more than 50 years by such a high-ranking American official. The embargo now seems on its way out.
 
10
Earlier in this book, Chen and Lee (2013) note a similarly dis-proportionate amount of tolls and fees, when freight is shipped between different provinces in China.
 
11
Later in the present volume, Higginson (2013) discusses the corresponding difficulties at a number of crossings of the frontier between Canada and the United States.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Greater Mekong Sub-region of Southeast Asia: Improving Logistics Connectivity
Author
Ruth Banomyong
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
Handbook of Global Logistics

Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-6131-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4419-6132-7

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6132-7_4