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Union of Road Transport Associations in the Black Sea Economic Co-operation Region
BTK
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars
CAREC
Central Asia Regional Co-operation Programme
CATS
CAREC Advance Transit System
CBAM
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
CBC
Cross-Border Co-operation
CC
Co-ordination Committee
CCC
Customs Co-operation Committee [of the Central Asia Regional Economic Co-operation Programme]
CCZs
Customs Clearance Zones
CEF
Connecting Europe Facility
CFS
Container Freight Stations
CICA
Confidence Building Measures in Asia
CIM
Convention Internationale pour le Transport des Marchandises
CIM/SGMS
Agreement on International Goods Transport by Rail
CIT
International Rail Transport Committee
CMAs
Corridor Management Authorities
CMR
International Carriage of Goods
CPTA
Cross-Border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific
CU
Customs Union
DR Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo
EAEU
Eurasian Economic Union
EaP
Eastern Partnership Countries
EBRD
European Bank of Reconstruction and Development
e-CMR protocol
Electronic International Carriage of Goods Protocol
ECMT
European Conference of Ministers of Transport
ECO
Economic Co-operation Organisation
ECOWAS
Economic Community of West African States
EFTA
European Free Trade Association
EIB
European Investment Bank
EPD
Electronic Pre-Declaration
ESIA
Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
ESPO
European Sea Ports Organisation
e-TIR system
Electronic International Road Transport System
EU
European Union
FDI
Foreign Direct Investment
FIATA
International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations
FTA
Free Trade Agreement
G20
Group of Twenty
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
GIS
Geopolitical Intelligence Services
GL Index
Grubel-Lloyd Index
GR
Georgian Railways
GTrD
Global Transit Document
GVC
Global Value Chain
HHI
Herfindahl-Hirschman index
HoA
Horn of Africa
HS
Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System
IATITR
International Association Trans-Caspian International Transport Route
ICBC
International Centre for Cross-Border Co-operation
IFC
International Finance Corporation
IFIs
International Financial Institutions
IIT
Intra-Industry Trade
IMF
International Monetary Fund
IO
International Organisation
IPA
Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance
IRU
International Road Union
ITC
International Trade Centre
ITF
International Transport Forum
JBIC
Japanese Bank of International Co-operation
JSC
Joint-Stock Company
JV
Joint Venture
km
kilometre
KMTF
KazMorTransFlot (Kazakhstan Maritime Transport Fleet)
KNOMAD
Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development
KTZ
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy
LoLo
Lift-on/Lift-off
LPI
Logistics Performance Index [of the World Bank]
m
metre
MC
Middle Corridor
MCLI
Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative
MIID
Ministry for Industry and Infrastructure Development [of Kazakhstan]
MMT
Multi-Modal Marine Terminal
MNE
Multinational Enterprise
mt
megaton
MVA
Motor Vehicles Agreement
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement
NASCO
North American Supercorridor Coalition
NCTS
New Computerised Transit System
NGO
Non-Governmental Organisation
NTFCs
National Trade Facilitation Committee
ODA
Official Development Assistance
OEC
Observatory of Economic Complexity
OECD
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and development
OIC
Organisation of Islamic Co-operation
OSCE
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
OSJD
Organisation of for Co-operation of Railways
OSS
One-Stop Shop
OTIF
Organisation for International Carriage by Rail
OTS
Organisation of Turkic States
PMCG
Policy and Management Consulting Group
PPD
Public-Private Dialogue
PPI
Private Participation in Infrastructure
PPP
Public-Private Partnership
R&D
Research and Development
R4TCA
Ready4Trade Central Asia
RoRo
Roll-on/Roll-off
RTFCs
Regional Trade Facilitation Committees
SESRIC
Statistical, Economic, and Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries
SEZ
Special Economic Zone
SME
Small and Medium-sized Enterprise
SPS
Sanitary and Phytosanitary certificates
STRI
Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
t
tonne
TCDD
Turkish State Railway Authority
TEN-T
Trans-European Transport Network
TEU
Twenty-foot equivalent unit
TFIs
Trade Facilitation Indicators
TIR
Transports Internationaux Routiers (International Road Transport)
TITR
Trans-Caspian International Transport Route
TOBB
Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye
TOR
Transfer of Operating Rights
TRACECA
Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia
U.S.
United States of America
UN
United Nations
UNCTAD
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNECE
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNESCAP
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
URL
Unified Railway Law
USAID
United States Agency for International Development
USD
United States dollar
USMCA
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
VfM
Value for Money
WIPO
World Intellectual Property Organisation
WPSP
World Port Sustainability Programme
WTO
World Trade Organisation
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