On January 29th, Kazakhstan’s ‘second city’ Almaty hosts a one-day international conference titled ‘The Role of Logistics from Asia to Europe’. The aim of the event is to intensify dialogue between representatives of government and the business community on the development of international transport corridors in the OSCE area.
The organizers are the international business magazine JURA MOPE SEA and a Kazakh and Lithuanian group of companies called the TL Nika Group. The conference has the full support of both Kazakhstan’s and Lithuania’s Ministry of Transport & Communications and their Ministries of Foreign Affairs. The event will be attended by Kazakh Minister of Transport & Communications, Abelgazy Kusainov, as well as representatives from the Customs Control Committee of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Finance and representatives from business circles in Kazakhstan, Lithuania and other CIS countries.
Specifically, questions such as ‘The Road to Europe: The Best Logistical Partners?’ and ‘Modern Logistics Solutions: Competition or Cooperation?’ will be addressed during the conference. In addition, issues such as new schemes to deliver cargo from Southeast Asia to Europe, the impact of a single customs system, the capabilities of the Klaipeda Port as a reliable link, perspectives in air transportation, cooperation in the sphere of civil aviation between the EU and Central Asia and the logistics chain from China to Europe will be addressed. Development directions of Kazakhstan and Lithuania in improving transport and transit conditions during the countries’ respective OSCE chairmanships will also be discussed.
The event takes place as Kazakhstan begins its year as chair of the OSCE. No Asian state has ever before held the chair of the Organization - and Lithuania becomes the first Baltic state to hold the chairmanship in 2011.
Kazakhstan and Lithuania (as members of the OSCE Troika with Greece) agreed that during their respective Chairmanships, both countries’ priority would be transport and transit development. The period under consideration coincides with Kazakhstan’s State Programme ‘Path to Europe’, the implementation of which began in 2009 and will be completed in 2011. The success of the transit development detailed in the ‘Path to Europe’ depends largely on overcoming complicated logistics.
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