From 10 – 11 April 2014 in Riga, Latvia, one of the biggest events took place at the Baltic World Trends Forum. The Forum was held under the patronage of the Riga City Council, the Academy of Sciences and the Chamber of Commerce in Latvia, with the participation of top officials of the Government of Latvia.
In the framework of the forum a parallel session was held on “Silk Road of the XXI century” organised by the Transport Workers Union of Kazakhstan, “KAZLOGISTICS”, GAO Latvijas dzelzceļš, Stena Line.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Latvia, JSC Latvijas dzelzceļš, Logistics Association of Latvia, Riga and Ventspils ports.
This session was a unified communications platform for representatives of transport, trade and business in different countries. The key issue of discussion was the revival of the New Silk Road between Europe and Asia via the “New Silk Road” project, whose essence lies in the revival of a land bridge between China and Europe. Kazakhstan in this project should become a major business hub and transit of the Central Asian region. The main element of the “New Silk Road” will be developed on the basis of JSC "NC “KTZ”.
Topics of discussion included international cooperation, implementation of the “New Silk Road” infrastructure projects for implementation of the transit potential of Kazakhstan, the “Kazakhstan Supply Chain Cluster” project, 5C principle: speed service, cost, safety and stability.
The Forum also focused on cooperation between Kazakhstan and Latvia, the development of the Roadmap for the launch of container-speed trains in the direction of the East-West and back with a branch of the route through the ports of Latvia; study of specific consumption of the East to create multimodal freight route from Latvia to/through Kazakhstan; cooperation with Latvian university training for the transport industry; initiating research on the development of multimodal transport corridor through Latvia; considering importing equipment from Europe through the ports of Latvia at Kashagan, Tengiz, Karachaganak, etc.
The Transport Union of Kazakhstan, “KAZLOGISTICS”, was presented during the session led by CEO Yerkhat Iskaliev.
(Source: KTZ)
