Kuwait, February 20, 2017, Mr. Abdulwahab Al Wazzan, second Vice President of Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, received yesterday Essa Hamzah , CEO, Kuwait International Motor Club, accompanied by Rani Wehbe, representative of the International Road Transport Federation, Mohammed al-Hamdan, relationship Manager . The meeting highlighted the discussion of the reactivation and modernization of the TIR system in Kuwait in light of the decisions of the Ministers of Finance and Customs directors of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to the TIR Convention. The TIR system is a global system and is widely applied in many countries, which contributes to facilitating the movement of goods, and the application of this system will have a positive impact on the ranking and ranking of Kuwait in global logistics standards.

Kuwait is witnessing economic development in several areas, including trade and transport development and the promotion of intra-trade, especially in light of the agreement of Saudi Arabia and Iraq to join the International Land Transport Agreement for TIR Oil, which is in the interest of promoting the growth of investment and trade between Kuwait Its neighbors and the rest of the region, while China is seeking the largest trading partner with Kuwait to join the Convention, as Pakistan has recently joined, India has shown its official interest in acceding to the Convention.
This was confirmed by Rani Wehbe, the first advisor to the Middle East and North Africa region of the International Association for the Transport of the land, which is headquartered in the Swiss city of Geneva, as a non-profit international organization with members of more than 100 countries of transport organizations and institutions, noting that all of the foregoing enhances Trade with Kuwait, which opens up opportunities for commercial corridors to facilitate and accelerate the entry of goods to countries, and allows Kuwait to play a pivotal role in the transport, transit and logistics sector.

Essa Hamzah : The private sector contributes to the activation of the vision 2035 the CEO of Kuwait Automobile and Tourism Club KT Essa Hamzah confirmed during the dialogue that the future developments of Kuwait's economic vision 2035 pushed us as a private sector to move to contribute to the Government's approach to transforming Kuwait into A regional financial and trade center, indicating that speeding up traffic and facilitating intra-and transit trade and transit of trucks and passenger vehicles between Kuwait and its neighbors is an integral part of the ambitious strategies that the government is seeking to operationalize intra-trade. Al-Faylakawi added that the Kuwait Automobile and Tourism Club is working to keep pace with the global transformations in order to facilitate the movement of trade and simplify procedures based on internationally established disciplines and standards that promote the development of markets and contribute to the development of transport services and logistic movement locally and regionally, He noted that the rise of the private sector in Kuwait in partnership with the public sector will contribute to accelerating development to meet the economic ambitions of Kuwait's development plans. Al-Faylakawi said that today we are in Kuwait on the threshold of a development phase to create large projects aimed at making Kuwait a strategic financial and commercial Regional center and we are moving in this direction through efforts and continue to activate the effort to enhance transport traffic and develop its services, especially on The level of expectations in the development of ports and transport logistics to serve the activation of the Gulf Common Market.

Training program:
As part of the plans to activate the agreement with Kuwait, a training and development program is offered to the Customs department and the private sector and workshops to highlight the needs of the trainees and the requirements of the cadres working in this field in order to achieve the future aspirations, especially as Kuwait is ready to play a greater role on The regional level in several areas in light of the growth in Kuwait.

KT Club Kuwait's sole representative:
Essa Hamzah pointed out that the Kuwait Automobile and Tourism Club KT is the only representative in Kuwait of the International Road Transport Union and invited the competent authorities in the State of Kuwait to participate in the workshops to be held in the Jordanian capital Amman for two days on 21 and 22 March next under the supervision of the Royal Club Jordan Automotive Co., in cooperation with Jordanian customs, to discuss obstacles to the Al-Tanir regime in the Middle East.

The Al-Tanir Agreement for Kuwait contributes to the realization of Kuwait's economic vision, including the expansion of the transport and logistics sector. The port of Mubarak is a project that promotes the development of transport in Kuwait. Many aspects of activating the agreement with Customs and some authorities in Kuwait were discussed in cooperation with the member of the International Transport Union represented in Kuwait-Kuwaiti club for cars and tourism-a plan was developed with the Kuwaiti Customs to develop a plan of action and roadmap for the implementation of the agreement in the coming period in order to serve Kuwait's trade and industry sector.