The road ahead: 75 years of TIR
The Association of International Road Carriers of Uzbekistan (AIRCUZ), in partnership with IRU, is inviting all IRU members to attend the conference “International Road Transport: Driving Resilience and Prosperity. The road ahead: 75 years of TIR” in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Road transport is an essential service: no country can live without it. A majority of the region’s transport corridors are multimodal and require multiple transshipments. Therefore, resilient and sustainable connectivity needs resilient and sustainable road transport. This remains vital, especially for landlocked countries to become land-linked trading nations.
This unique conference will bring together IRU members and industry leaders from the region and beyond, international organisations, development partners and international financial institutions. Exchanges between stakeholders allow trade and logistics actors across the supply chain to overcome challenges and capitalise on opportunities to streamline international trade.
As a shining example, the event will highlight 75 years of the TIR system, the United Nations’ longest continuous public-private partnership, which has been so critical to facilitating transit and trade, increasing efficiency and reducing carbon emissions. Ultimately, enhanced “hard” infrastructure needs to be effectively coupled with “soft” infrastructure.
Participants are also cordially invited to the dinner taking take place in central Tashkent on 4 September 2024, from 19:00.
Following the conference and offering extensive networking and business matchmaking opportunities, a special tour to the heart of the ancient Silk Road, the city of Bukhara, will take place from 5 to 6 September 2024. This will include an informal roundtable on east-west and north-south connectivity on 5 September. Kindly note that the registration for the trip to Bukhara is now closed.
If you have any questions, please contact Mr Dmitriy Chubenko for AIRCUZ or Ms Valeria Popova for IRU.
09:30-10:00 Registration
10:00–10:30 Welcome and Keynote speeches
- Radu Dinescu, President, IRU
- Ilhom Makhkamov, Minister of Transport of the Republic of Uzbekistan (tbc)
- Kubanychbek Omuraliev, Secretary General, Organization of Turkic States (OTS)
- Ilkhom Mukhtorov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan (tbc)
- Sanjar Pulatov, Chairman, AIRCUZ
10:30–11:50 Session 1 on key mechanisms for enhancing connectivity
Moderator: Tatiana Rey-Bellet, Director – TIR & Transit, IRU Geneva
Panellists:
- Dimitrios Rallis, Deputy Secretary General, Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)
- Sergei Paseko, Executive Director, Transport and Infrastructure Department, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)
- Robert J. Voetsch, Chief of Party, USAID/Central Asia – Trade Central Asia
- Victor Aragones, Senior Transport Economist, World Bank
- Oleg Samukhin, Senior Transport Specialist of CWTC, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Abdulla Khashimov, Adviser to the Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan
11:50–12:10 Coffee break
12:10–13:30 Session 2 #TIR75
TIR: 75 years of faster, more efficient and more secure trade and transit
Moderator: Tatiana Rey-Bellet, Director – TIR & Transit, IRU Geneva
Panellists:
- André Sceia, Sustainable Transport Division, UNECE Secretariat
- Hasan Almanasif, Executive Manager, SATA, Saudi Arabia
- Valeriu Tulbu, President, AITA, Moldova
- Qiu Xiaojuan, Vice General Manager, ZZHY, China
- Usman Shah Afridi, Business Head, TIR Central Asia, TCS Trade LLC, Pakistan
13:30–13:55 Award ceremony of Top Managers and Best Eurasian Road Transport Operators
13:55–14:00 Closing remarks
- Umberto de Pretto, Secretary General, IRU
14:00–15:00 Lunch
15:00–18:00 Free time
19:00–22:00 Dinner
Speakers
Wyndham Tashkent hotel
100000, Tashkent Amir Temur Str., C-4, No. 7/8
Uzbekistan
