The third program of the Hot Topix TV series, ‘Zamyn Uud: Gateway of Development’ broadcasted three times on both UBS and MNTV from August 19 – 22. This program was designed to increase public awareness about the logistics issues in Zamyn Uud, Mongolia’s southern border port with China, and the impact of these issues on Mongolia’s economy and development.
EPRC is producing the Hot Topix TV series to provide the Mongolian public with easy-to-understand information on topics of interest and importance to Mongolia’s economic development. Each program is of 10-12 minutes in length and focuses on one salient issue using an array of media to convey essential information including interviews, graphs, hosts, animation, live footage and others.
Mongolia ranks at 156 out of 181 countries with respect to the ability to facilitate trade across borders. This is quite significant for a country that imports 70 percent of its essential foods, 80 percent of industry goods and 100 percent of equipment, machinery and fuel and petroleum products. 60 to 70 percent of overall imported goods enter the country through Mongolia’s southern border with China in Zamyn Uud.
(Google maps image of congestion in Zamyn Uud Summer 2008)
The program focused on the inadequate facilities for customs clearance and inspections, the insufficient and obsolete road-to-rail transshipment infrastructure and poor access. These factors create a major bottleneck in the flow of goods through Zamyn Uud, causing major delays for goods to move from Zamyn Uud to the rest of the country. Given the large percentage of imports entering Mongolia through this border, such infrastructure-related inefficiencies impact the cost of doing business for traders and freight forwarders and contribute to increased cost of goods.
After describing the challenges at the Zamyn Uud border, the program explained the GoM’s efforts to improve the situation, including harmonization of customs and inspections IT systems and a plan to expand the customs and inspections yards for a smooth flow of traffic and adequate space for proper clearances. Finally, the program explained the vision for a potential Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) to develop a new road-to-rail transshipment facility in Zamyn-Uud to enable a faster, cost-effective flow of goods.
Digital image of vision for updated road-to-rail transshipment facility proposed to be developed with a PPP mechanism.
A flash video version of the full ‘Zamyn Uud: Gateway of Development’ program and other Hot Topix programs can be found on the EPRC project website (http://www.eprc-chemonics.biz/index.php/documents/multimedia/21-multimedia.html).
EPRC is producing the Hot Topix TV series to provide the Mongolian public with easy-to-understand information on topics of interest and importance to Mongolia’s economic development. Each program is of 10-12 minutes in length and focuses on one salient issue using an array of media to convey essential information including interviews, graphs, hosts, animation, live footage and others.
Mongolia ranks at 156 out of 181 countries with respect to the ability to facilitate trade across borders. This is quite significant for a country that imports 70 percent of its essential foods, 80 percent of industry goods and 100 percent of equipment, machinery and fuel and petroleum products. 60 to 70 percent of overall imported goods enter the country through Mongolia’s southern border with China in Zamyn Uud.
(Google maps image of congestion in Zamyn Uud Summer 2008)
The program focused on the inadequate facilities for customs clearance and inspections, the insufficient and obsolete road-to-rail transshipment infrastructure and poor access. These factors create a major bottleneck in the flow of goods through Zamyn Uud, causing major delays for goods to move from Zamyn Uud to the rest of the country. Given the large percentage of imports entering Mongolia through this border, such infrastructure-related inefficiencies impact the cost of doing business for traders and freight forwarders and contribute to increased cost of goods.
After describing the challenges at the Zamyn Uud border, the program explained the GoM’s efforts to improve the situation, including harmonization of customs and inspections IT systems and a plan to expand the customs and inspections yards for a smooth flow of traffic and adequate space for proper clearances. Finally, the program explained the vision for a potential Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) to develop a new road-to-rail transshipment facility in Zamyn-Uud to enable a faster, cost-effective flow of goods.
Digital image of vision for updated road-to-rail transshipment facility proposed to be developed with a PPP mechanism.
A flash video version of the full ‘Zamyn Uud: Gateway of Development’ program and other Hot Topix programs can be found on the EPRC project website (http://www.eprc-chemonics.biz/index.php/documents/multimedia/21-multimedia.html).