OREANDA-NEWS. May 14, 2010. The conference will be one of the leading events in international rail freight services. Taking part will be senior executives and professionals in rail transport and logistics, customers, influential politicians, regulators and transportation organisations from around the world, reported the press-centre of Russian Railways.

The Russian Railways’ delegation will be led by Company President Vladimir Yakunin.

The main topics under discussion at the conference will be:

Rail transport in the global economic and financial crisis

"Green" logistics - new opportunities for railways

Liberalisation of the railways - how to attract private investment?

Railway land bridges - conditions for success

Combined transport - the future of containers

Carload shipments - flourishing in North America, surviving in Europe?

Combined transport - the need to increase efficiency

Rail-based global logistics - creating customer value.

The Conference will be held at the Astoria and Angleterre hotels. The official conference languages will be English and Russian.

For more on the Conference, please visit: www.uic-grfc.org.