Potential Alternatives for Palestinian Trade : Developing the Rafah Trade Corridor
This paper covers the following four key issues: (i) Palestinian trade against the background of global trade expansion; (ii) trade logistics and performance using Egyptian gateways; (iii) establishing the border terminal operations and transit pro...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/03/8041676/potential-alternatives-palestinian-trade-developing-rafah-trade-corridor http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23987 |
| Summary: | This paper covers the following four key
issues: (i) Palestinian trade against the background of
global trade expansion; (ii) trade logistics and performance
using Egyptian gateways; (iii) establishing the border
terminal operations and transit protocols; and (iv)
conclusions and next steps. The study point out that the
success of the Rafah corridor is dependent on establishing
practices and procedures which, while sensitive to
legitimate security and economic concerns and minimizing
risks, are appropriate and focused on facilitating efficient
and reliable trade. It suggests that the development of the
Rafah corridor take a phased approach beginning with
specially arranged demonstration shipments to jump start
operations and then expanding these activities as systems
and procedures are instituted and improved. The report
believes that using Rafah as a trade corridor to ship goods
from Gaza to Egypt's efficient and privately managed
container terminal at the entrance to the Suez Canal and to
Cairo International Airport can provide competitive trade
logistics in terms of performance and at a cost generally
equivalent to or less than Israel's ports and airports. |
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