Key Issues Addressed

• Inefficiency in the conduct of trade logistics and facilitation.
• Cumbersome procedures of customs. 
• Inefficient operations and procedures for international trade. 
• Inappropriately designed and powered road freight traffic.
• Expensive and inefficient operations of the trucking industry.
• Overloading resulting in very high axle loads.
  

• Simplify customs' clearance procedures. 
• Customs to provide out-of-normal hours clearance to meet trade and transport requirement. 
• Deregulate container movements in bond. 
• Consolidate international trade documents and align them to the standard international format. 
• Implement effective "trade points" at ports, inland trade centers and dry ports. 
• Streamline financial and banking provisions related to foreign trade transactions. 
• Modernize and liberalize marine and domestic transport insurance provisions and policy conditions. 
• Permit import of modern vehicles and powerful heavy duty trucks.
• Enable truckers to have access to regular financial markets for purchase of vehicles.
• Establish modern freight terminals in major cities by private parties in association with municipal councils or regional authorities.
• Improve efficiency of NLC by managing and operating it on a commercial basis.
• Evolve measures to address excessive loading by trucks