OREANDA-NEWS. June 04, 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 RZD.

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 opened by Vladimir Yakunin, Russian Railways president and Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, General Director, UIC.

Among the other confirmed speakers are Dr. Karl-Friedrich Rausch, Board Member, DB, Pierre Blayau, CEO, GEODIS SNCF, Dr. Sebastian Jurgens, Member of the Board, HHLA, Lance Hockridge, CEO, Queensland Rail, Stig Nerdal, CEO, Transportutveckling, Dr. Alexander Hedderich, CEO, DB Schenker Rail, Dr. Christoph Seidelmann, Vice President, B.I.C, Oliver Sellnick, Freight Director, UIC, Ferdinand Schmidt, Member of the Executive Board, RCA, Brooks A. Bentz, Partner - Supply Chain Transportation, Accenture, Julian Smith, Partner - Global rail sector and transport infrastructure leader, PwC, Henry Posner III, Chairman Railroad and Development Corporation and Iowa Interstate Railroad, Jacques Koch, General Manager, Purchasing & Procurement Europe, ArcelorMittal, Dr. Martin Streichfuss, Partner, Roland Berger, Zoltan Kazatsay, Deputy Director General, DG MOVE.

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