The VI International Conference “Transport Service Market: cooperation and partnership. 10 years of railway transport reform” will take place at “Crocus Expo” (Moscow) on October, 29-30, 2008.
This year’s conference will address the most pressing challenges facing the market of transport services. The two-day conference will allow the participants to discuss the following issues: progress of the railway reform; potential strategic planning of Russian railways’ operation; modernization of the long-haul rail transportation market; interaction of transport market players under the conditions of the ongoing reform; Russian railways’ investment prospects; international lessons learnt of railway reforms; innovative transport technologies and best practices in the relations of RZD JSC and rail operators; the challenges of forming the transport service market and tariff regulation.
The VI International Conference “Transport Service Market: cooperation and partnership. 10 years of railway transport reform” will be attended by deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov, deputy Prime Minister and RZD Chairman Alexander Zhukov, RZD JSC President Vladimir Yakunin, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov as well as Russian legislators from the State Duma and the Federation Council, heads of federal ministries and agencies, top-managers of leading Russian and foreign companies operating in the railway sector, and representatives of the business community.
The conference will also include a briefing, devoted to the role, played by the modernization of the Russian railways in the course of the reform of country’s natural monopolies. Celebrity guest speakers at the briefing will include Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko, Director of the Transitional Economy Institute Yegor Gaidar, deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee Valery Golubev, member of the supervisory board of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation Anatoly Chubais and some others.
The conference envisages a dinner reception at the end of the first day, which will be hosted by the President of Russian Railways JSC, and an award ceremony of the Russian Railways’ 2008 Partner Prize.
Also, a transport market vacancy fair is in the plans of the conference.
The conference is co-organized by Business Dialog Ltd. and the editorial board of the RZD-Partner magazine, with Russian Railways JSC as the Strategic Partner.
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