In all, some 17 services sectors and subsectors are affected by discussions relating to classification, including energy, computer related, environmental, legal, transport (maritime and air transport), education and distribution services.

The annual Review of Maritime Transport provides comprehensive and up to date statistics and information on maritime and ancillary services with particular emphasis on developing countries.

Particular attention is given to developments in Latin American trade and maritime transport in the 2005 edition of the Review of Maritime Transport.

Emissions from fuel used for international aviation and maritime transport

Collection and analysis of relevant national and international regulations on maritime transport security

Several Parties identified certain trends in the transport sector including the increase in road transport at the expense of both commuter and freight railway use and maritime transport.

Analysis of the entire maritime transport chain (international commercial shipping as well as port facilities).

Transport services should be seen as part of logistics services, which incorporated transport and production chains into global supply chains.

The Alliance had a maritime surveillance operation to impede the transport of weapons of mass destruction.

(f) Multilateral maritime and air transport agreements were rendered essentially inoperative but remained legally in force

The second document provides a brief review of recent maritime security initiatives and discusses security risk assessment and management frameworks methods and applications relevant to maritime transport.

Its role is to implement the transport strategy and to manage transport services across London.

The road transport services have been broadly liberalized.

Multilateral maritime and air transport agreements, as well as communications conventions, were partially inoperative but received partial application.

The following actions on the part of the Ministry of Transport (Maritime Transport Sector General Authority for Land Border crossing Points) and the Ministry of Aviation (Airport Authority)

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) carried out gender sensitization campaigns with the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport the Nautical Training School of Cape Verde the Marine Training School of Malawi and the Maritime Training College of Veracruz, Mexico.

Information was disseminated to member countries through recurrent publications such as the annual Review of Maritime Transport and the quarterly Transport Newsletter, as well as through non recurrent publications.

Against this background, UNCTAD's Review of Maritime Transport 2005 provides some information on the ISPS Code and its implementation.

International trade involves goods, services, transport operations, vehicles and infrastructure.

The Agreement on cooperation in the field of maritime transport in the Arab Mashreq was submitted for adoption at the session.

In 2003, LDCs accounted for 0.4 per cent of world trade in services, mostly transport and travel services.

Similar requirements apply for aviation and maritime, which are included in the International Civil Aviation Organisation's Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air and the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code respectively.

The secretariat continued to monitor and analyse developments relating to efficient transport and trade facilitation, including multimodal transport and logistics services.

The past year also saw a number of activities in the development and implementation of measures to strengthen maritime transport safety and security.

The Cuban Ministry of Transport was working in coordination with Customs and other authorities to simplify administrative procedures and had successfully improved the flow of maritime trade information and the transit time of maritime traffic in Cuba.

As an important element of transit transport regimes, attention would be paid to ensuring an enabling environment for multimodal transport and logistics services.

Distribution services depend on the availability of infrastructure and are closely linked with services such as transport, packaging, warehousing, financial services and commercial real estate development.

(i) Acknowledgement by Member States that the products and services provided through the subprogramme assisted their maritime programmes

This includes transport infrastructure, such as roads public transport services public utilities such as water and waste treatment and security and emergency services Capacity building Sustainability issues can be fully covered in the delivery of tourism training and advisory services to enterprises and communities.

As a result, there was transport of commodities between Roman regions, but increased with the rise of Roman maritime trade in the 2nd century BC.

The project was completed in early 2004 and provided an analysis of the current international regulations on the security of maritime transport, and their effectiveness in preventing maritime terrorism. The results of this research project were published in May 2004.

In addition to air transport, Royal Wings provides handling and maintenance services to other aircraft.

Transport, logistics and distribution services are crucial for moving goods and services from one country to another, while business, telecommunications and financial services reduce transaction costs and support trade.

In that context and in recognition of the special case of natural monopolies, some of the agreements also contain specific exclusions. For example, the European Union has exclusions related to rail, roads and inland waterways, maritime transport and air transport.

The first pilot course, hosted by the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt, was conducted successfully from 20 to 25 September 2004.

(mm) Comité Maritime International (CMI) and Government of Sweden Roundtable on E Commerce, Transport Documents, Rights of Control and Transfer of Rights (London, 23 25 February 2005)

It provides methodological input on mitigation of climate change, land use, land use change and forestry, fuels used in international aviation and maritime transport and emission projections.

In the Andean Community, certain regulations concerning transport and financial and telecommunications services are being harmonized.

The maritime security measures aim towards establishing a security conscious culture amongst seafarers, ship owners, ship operators, maritime sector services providers and port facility operators, users and service providers and focus on enhancing awareness and vigilance.

Chile has always been particularly interested in the attainment of an international standards regime for the multilateral regulation of maritime transport of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste.

The development of multimodal transport and accelerated delivery services would also represent an important contribution for LDCs.

Developing coastal States need support in enhancing their control measures in order to effectively combat the use of maritime transport by illicit traffickers of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

A question was raised as to whether draft article 89(a) would introduce exemption of liability in the non maritime legs of the carriage in case of multimodal transport.

On the issue of transport, African countries had encountered serious difficulties in complying with new maritime security regimes, and they needed more financial and technical assistance in that connection.

The existence and quality of infrastructural services are key determinants of trade services such as transport and logistics, but also distribution, telecommunications, financial and business services, are crucial to the competitiveness of economies.