International conferance & Exhibition

Conference Overview
Term: 4-6 March 2009
Venue: Clarion Congress Hotel Prague****, Czech Republic
Languages: English, Russian
Meet Your Asian Rail Freight Market in the Heart of Europe


Session Topics
Main topic:

Railway Transports from China
Sub-themes:

* Successful projects
* Problem areas
* Solutions offered by railways
* New challenges and opportunities
* Wagon monitoring in Europe/Asia
* Transshipment stations
* Logistic terminals
* Fleet management
* Common consignment note CIM/SMGS
* Railway Interoperability
* New legislation


Call For Papers
SPEAKERS:

* Top railway experts
* Representatives of railway cargo companies
* Delegates from Asian railways (China, Kazakhstan, Russia...)
* European Commission, UIC, OSJD, CER, CIT etc.
* International organisations
* Asian and European forwarding companies
* Custom services providers

PRESENTATIONS:

Papers are invited on the topics outlined and others falling within the scope of the meeting. Abstracts should be submitted as soon as possi-ble. The languages of your presentation could be English and Russian.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

We strongly encourage the submission of your paper in English or Rus-sian electronically via email to petr.kroca@irfc.eu. Please include your name, address and contact details, presentation title, abstract (no more than 100 words) and appropriate sub-theme(s). The Conference Organisation Committee will be picking the most suitable oral presenta-tions during September 2008 and will inform authors on acceptance of their papers.