The International Union of Railways, UIC and the International Federation of Freight Forwarders, FIATA, are jointly organising the 5th Market Place Seminar in Vienna from 18 – 19 April 2013. The Market Place Seminar aims to create opportunities for increased cooperation and business development within the rail sector by offering a common platform for railway undertakings, freight forwarders and customers.
The themes of the previous editions focused respectively on Rail Transport in Eastern Europe in Prague, French-Iberian Rail Link in Barcelona, Rail Transport connecting South Eastern Europe and the Middle-East in Istanbul and Challenges of Intermodal Hinterland Traffic in Hamburg.
This year the seminar will be organised in Vienna and will focus on Intercontinental Corridors – New Opportunities for Rail Freight?
The main subjects will focus on:
- South-East Corridors
- New business perspectives in Europe – Asian traffic
- Future development of railway policy in Europe
- Intermodal and distribution solutions
Confirmed high level speakers include: Mag. Christian Kern, Spokesman of the Board of Management (CEO), ÖBB Holding AG, Harald Bollmann, Zentralverband Spedition & Logistik, Honorary President, Zoltán Potvorszki, Express-Interfracht, Managing Director, Prof. Friedrich Macher, Grampetcargo Austria GmbH, Managing Partner, Dr. Ivan Petrov, FIATA-UIC, Heiner Rogge, FIATA, Francesco Parisi, Porto di Trieste, Gennady Bessanov, CCTT Transiberian, Secretary General, Imre Kovács, Rail Cargo Hungaria Zrt., CEO, Ralf-Charley Schultze, Gefco, Multimodal Logistics Director, Thomas Kargl, Far East Landbridge Ltd., Managing Director, Nicolette van der Jagt, CLECAT, Director General, Günther Ferk, X-Rail, CEO, László Mosóczi, Hungrail.
A technical visit will be organised to the Tri Modal Terminal in Wien Freudenau.
Our co-host Rail Cargo Group, and our co-operation partners Zentralverband Spedition und Logistik and IBS would like to welcome you to our event and we look forward to meeting you!
Further information available at www.marketplaceseminar.org
