Concessions and road and rail transport optimization

Includes bibliography

Computerization of maritime ports, e-commerce platforms and logistics communities

In the past few years there has been a clear trend of attaching increasing importance to "inforstructures", or the capacity of ports to process the information that accompanies foreign trade flows, so that the processing becomes a facilitating factor for trade, rather than an obstacle.This led to development of the concept of a port community system, which is a computerized system that interconnects all the members of a logistics community, making the exchange of documentation as effective as possible, reducing the volume of data to be re-entered in different systems and ultimately improving the whole process of monitoring an operation until its completion. Computerization of communications between all the actors at the ports facilitates integration of the community, while it also assists interaction between ports, thus forming logistics corridors.

Los grandes ejes de comercio y transporte en Sudamérica: realidades y potenciales de los corredores transcontinentales

En las dos ediciones siguientes del Boletín se destacan partes de dos estudios recientes preparados por esta Comisión acerca de las realidades y potenciales de los corredores transcontinentales de Sudamérica. En esta edición se entregan pormenores sobre las relaciones que unen los tráficos con las infraestructuras, sobre la estructuración del mercado de servicios de transporte terrestre y sobre el marco institucional, tales como se describen en el documento "Una primera aproximación al estudio de los servicios de transporte en los espacios de integración: El caso de Argentina y Chile" (LC/R.1633) CEPAL, abríl de 1996.