IX International Conference "Transport Service Market: cooperation and partnership" December 14-15, 2011, Moscow, "Renaissance Moscow Monarch Centre Hotel"

Vladimir Yakunin
President of the JSC «Russian Railways»

I send greetings to the participants, organisers and guests of the IX International Conference “The Transport Services Market: Cooperation and Partnership”.

Throughout the years of its activity, the Conference has become one of the most outstanding events in the transport industry. Its numerous discussion formats, which are open for a dialogue between interested parties, examine the most important aspects of how the Russian rail freight transport market functions.

The current forum is due to focus on discussion of a wide range of issues which concern the interests of absolutely all participants of the transport services market: mechanisms for managing private rolling stock, creating a competitive environment in the field of wagon and locomotive repairs and maintenance, improving tariff policy, modernising the railway infrastructure, and much more besides.

The principal question for the Conference will be how to develop algorithms to construct an economically justified and legally competent system of cooperation between the state and business aimed at providing a guaranteed transport service for the Russian economy in the future.

I wish all the participants of the conference mutual understanding and determination to deliver constructive proposals for developing the transport services market in the interests of promoting Russia’s sustainable socio-economic growth.

President of the JSC «Russian Railways»  Vladimir Yakunin