Kazakh PM opens II International Transport & Logistics Business Forum
ASTANA. November 7. KAZINFORM — "Kazakhstan - New Silk Road" II international transport - logistical business forum has been opened in Astana. The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Akhmetov is taking part in the event.
The event is attended by over 300 delegates - the heads of the national railway companies of Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia as well as the chairmen of the leading transport and logistics enterprises of the European Union and CIS.
The forum will discuss the results of the measures taken by the state for the development of transport - logistical systems. Considerable attention will be paid to the interaction of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus in the framework of the Common Economic Space and the creation of an integrated transport - logistics company of the Customs Union.
"Carrying out such a large-scale transport - logistics forum in Kazakhstan is the momentous event in the revival of the Great Silk Road. I am confident that the projects to be discussed at the forum will give new impetus to the development of transport - logistical system in Kazakhstan", Serik Akhmetov read a welcome address by the President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the participants of the conference.
According to experts about 3 billion people live on the territory of "Silk Road". The project "Kazakhstan - New Silk Road" provides for the establishment of transport - logistical system of international level based on attracting traffic to the Eurasian continent by establishing effective channels to deliver any cargo by any transport from origin to destination through the territory of Kazakhstan.