{"id":437538,"date":"2025-09-20T02:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/437538\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T02:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:43:12","slug":"ebrd-eu-back-new-customs-and-logistics-centre-for-armenian-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/437538\/","title":{"rendered":"EBRD, EU back new customs and logistics centre for Armenian capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>\u20ac39 million EBRD loan coupled with a \u20ac6 million EU grant for modern, sustainable infrastructure<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Financing will support faster and more efficient customs services <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Part of the EBRD Green Cities programme addressing key environmental priorities<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is financing a new customs and logistics centre on the outskirts of Yerevan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebrd.com\/home\/what-we-do\/where-we-invest\/armenia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armenia<\/a>, with a \u20ac39 million sovereign loan, complemented by a \u20ac6 million grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebrd.com\/home\/who-we-are\/our-organisation\/shareholders\/european-union.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a> (EU). <\/p>\n<p>The new facility will replace several fragmented customs sites across the capital, improving service quality and reducing the time required for clearance. The high-quality scanning and inspection equipment will significantly enhance the efficiency of the clearance processes and accelerate them by bringing into motion a \u2018single window\u2019 principle for customs operations. The facility will strengthen regional connectivity and support trade, contributing to the country\u2019s broader goals for economic development.<\/p>\n<p>The site will also be among the first public buildings in Armenia to receive green building certification, achieving a considerable increase in energy efficiency. Relocating customs operations outside the capital and bringing them under one roof will ease traffic congestion, improve air quality and cut freight-related greenhouse gas emissions in Yerevan by a third. <\/p>\n<p>Yerevan was one of the first cities to join the EBRD\u2019s Green Cities programme, and this project is a follow-on investment under Yerevan\u2019s Green City Action Plan. By consolidating customs operations into a modern, energy-efficient facility, the city is addressing key environmental priorities. This financing is also one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/strategy-and-policy\/priorities-2019-2024\/stronger-europe-world\/global-gateway_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU\u2019s Global Gateway<\/a> flagship initiatives for 2025 under the <a href=\"https:\/\/enlargement.ec.europa.eu\/system\/files\/2021-12\/eap_future_priorities_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU Economic and Investment Plan for Eastern Partnership<\/a> and demonstrates the EU commitment to strategic investment and sustainable development in Armenia and in the wider region. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, a nationwide rollout of digital customs training, the embedding of data literacy and the opening of new job opportunities across Armenia will be supported by the Bank and the TaiwanBusiness -EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund. <\/p>\n<p>Since the start of its operations in Armenia in 1992, the EBRD has invested more than \u20ac2.5 billion in the country across 231 projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u20ac39 million EBRD loan coupled with a \u20ac6 million EU grant for modern, sustainable infrastructure Financing will support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[31869,2000,299,5187,1699,1201],"class_list":{"0":"post-437538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-armenia","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-trade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115234327992641737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}