XVII International conference " TransBaltica 2014"

 

 

 

Date/Venue: June 5-6,  2014, hotel Radisson BLU Daugava, Kuģu str.24

"TransBaltica 2014" Conference programm

(Programm project of 2.06.2014)

Thursday  June 5

 9.00 – 10.00               Registration (hall Daugava on the 1^st floor). Morning coffee

10.00 – 12.00     I Plenary session (hall Daugava on the 1^st floor)

Moderator: Igors Graurs - Actual Rector, Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Latvia  

	Development of the Latvian transport sector Anrijs Matiss – Minister of Transport of the Republic of Latvia
	Development of the transport sector in changing economic conditions Igors Kasjanovs – Bank of Latvia, Chief Economist
	Main directions of the development of the Customs Union Legislation between Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation  Dmitry Nekrasov  - Head of the Department Eurasian Economic Commission
	Requirements to develop the Baltic states as a platform from West to East (and vice versa) Dieter Bock – Member of the Board Logistics association Germany, responsible for the Eastern Europe direction
	Sustainable Railway infrastructure development in Latvia Guntars Jansons - JSC "Latvian Railway"  Deputy Chief Engineer, Head of Development Planning Unit
	Transport and Logistics in the  Baltic Sea Region: Globalization vs  Regionalization Igor Kabashkin - Professor, Dr.hab.sc.ing., Member of the European Commission on Co-operation in Science and Technology, Technical Committee on Transport, President of Latvian Transport Development and Education Association, (Latvia)

 

12.00 – 12.30              COFFEE BREAK

12.30 – 14.00     II Plenary session (hall Daugava on the 1^st floor)

Moderator: Igors Graurs - Actual Rector, Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Latvia

	Russian transport and logistics projects in the Arctic and their impact on the development of the Baltic transit Nicholay Mezhevich – Professor, Ph.D., Head of the Master's program "Studies of the Baltic and Nordic countries", St.Petersburg State University, Russia
	Research of the Baltic ports’ competitiveness Julija Masane-Ose - Associate Director, Transactions and Restructuring Services KPMG Latvia
	The market of bunkering - today and tomorrow . The influence of MARPOL regulations on shipping in the Baltic Sea. The EC LNG project in the ports of the Baltic Sea. Anatoliy Belov – Director General of Bominflot Estonia, Bomin Group, Estonia
	Transport and processing infrastructure development as a shale boom factor Vitaliy Protasov - Head of Strategic Development, SIBUR, Russia
	Short Sea Shipping in the Baltic Sea Region – Results from the TransBaltic Extension project Adina Cailliaux  - International project coordinator Port of Hamburg Marketing (Germany)

 

14.00 – 15.00              LUNCH

15.00 – 17.00     III Plenary session (hall Daugava on the 1^st floor)

Moderator: Maris Riekstins- Deputy Director of Railway Department Ministry of Transport Republic of Latvia

	Strengthening competitiveness of the European regions through improvement of transport links: ‘Rail Baltica’ Warszawa – Białystok – PL/LT border Anna Modzelewska - Deputy Director of Expert and Monitoring Department within PKP PLK S.A.
	Rail Baltica status quo in Latvia expectations of Latvia Maris Riekstins- Deputy Director of Railway Department Ministry of Transport Republic of Latvia
	Recent landscape, transit facilities, problems and perspectives of International transportation corridors system (ITC) in Russia through the example of logistic processes of delivery and customs clearance of international express-cargoes Leonid Shlyapnikov – General director JSC «Sovtransavtoexpedition», Ph.D. in economy, Lecturer of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Russia, Moscow
	The main directions of improvement of customs procedures regarding to border crossings with the countries of the Baltic region. Current Problems Sergei Samuschev - Deputy Head of Vitebsk  Customs, Customs control matters, the Republic of Belarus
	The priorities in development of the transport infrastructure in the context of the economic interests of the Baltic countries and Russia Svetlana Voroncova  - Vice-president of the "Transport Integration", Russia
	Infrastructure and transport asset management -core fundament of effective transport business Nikolajs Petrovs  – Head of product development department  "DPA ", Latvia

 

17.00 – 19.00         Cocktail

 

Friday, June 6

10.00 a.m. – 13.00 p.m. Visit to Riga Free Port of Riga

10.00 – 10.15 Departure of the passengers ship from quayside of hotel RADISSON BLU DAUGAVA

10.00 – 13.00 Visit to Freeport of Riga, visit to port Administration centre, meeting with Captain of the port and representatives of Riga Central Terminal

13.30 Arrival to quayside of hotel RADISSON BLU DAUGAVA