South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Project

South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Project
Client

ADB and PwC

Location

Bhutan

Duration

December 2021 – December 2022

Services provided

Technical Assistance and Evaluation

To facilitate better infrastructure and trade facilitation support on road and railway originating and destination in SASEC countries, namely, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal, ADB needs to consolidate a comprehensive data collection and enable an analytical model or methodology that can be used to understand logistics movement across SASEC borders in an objective and quantitative way, based on data analytics.

Overview

To carry out an assessment of the logistics movement in the SASEC countries and the professional views of providers of logistics services, gaining useful on-ground insights about the status of the transportation and logistics market from the perspective of the service providers.

Outcomes

We delivered the following solutions to ensure compliance:

  • Data collection of all exporters and importers within the country.
  • Assessment of the data and categorization of the exporter/importer.
  • Conducting of field visits and interviews to fill out the surveys designed by PwC.
  • Compilation of data.
  • Report submission to PwC.