Deputy Director-General Xiangchen Zhang reaffirmed the WTO’s commitment to helping landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) address transit challenges for participation in global trade at the Ministerial Meeting of LLDCs held on the margins of the 16th session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD16) in Geneva on 22 October. He emphasized that the next frontier is digitalization paired with strong corridor governance, stressing that effective transit corridors require digitally interconnected and institutionally coordinated systems.World Trade Organization — Latest news