A webinar titled “A tool to boost international freight” will be held on October 14, 2020, with the host of UIC and UIC Middle East Regional Office.
TEHRAN, UIC RAME: It was scheduled that UIC Freight Department and RAME Office hold a webinar on “Corridor: A tool to boost international freight” on October 14, 2020, 9:00 a.m to 12 p.m in Paris local time with the participation of Middle East Railways. In this webinar, topics such as success factors for international rail corridors, improving border crossings and reducing stops at borders, operational measures, usable case for coordinating the braking system, digitalization tools to support border crossings and smooth operation, implementation of transit strategies to support logistics along the corridors will be addressed.
Corridors:
a tool to boost international freight
Venue: MS
Teams video conference
Time: 9:00
– 12:00 (Paris time)
Host: RAME
and UIC Freight
Target groups: RAME
Members – UIC Freight Forum Members – APRA Members – UIC partners in corridor
development
Language: English
Moderation: UIC
09:00
- 09:15 OPENING
Welcome by
UIC
Welcome by RAME
09:15 - 10:30 SUCCESS
FACTORS FOR INTERNATIONAL RAIL CORRIDORS
Work of RAME and presentation by TCDD and RAI
(20’)
Implementing corridor management: bringing together all stakeholders
(30’)
-
UNECE transcontinental initiatives (Roel Janssens, UNECE Transport Division)
-
“Fostering an international approach to support freight in Europe (Joost
Overdijkink, Senior Advisor UIC; Rafi Papo, RCG )
MAIN
CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS FOR A STRONGER MULTI REGIONAL COOPERATION
10:30 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 – 12:00 IMPROVEMENT
OF BORDER CROSSINGS AND REDUCING STOPS AT BORDERS (45’)
- Operational measures: use case on braking
harmonisation (Sven Seligmann, DB Cargo)
-
Digitalisation tool to support border crossing and smooth operation (Ekaterina
Kozyreva, IEC Intl)
-
Implementing transit guidelines to support logistics along corridors (Satoko
Kagawa, WCO tbc)
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS (20’)
Mr.
Talib Javad Kadhim, Director General of Iraqi Railways
CLOSING