(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 19. A meeting was held
between the Secretary General of the Permanent Secretariat of the
Intergovernmental Commission (IPC IGC) TRACECA Asset Asavbayev and
the Secretary General of the Intergovernmental Organization for
International Freight Transportation (OTIF) Wolfgang Küpper, the
press service of the PS IGC told Trend .
According to the press service, Asavbayev and Küpper discussed
the issues of international rail transport procedures, legal and
technical requirements in the organization of transport,
approximation of the laws of countries, accession to international
conventions on railway transportation, as well as various aspects
of the application of a unified CIM (Convention on International
Railway Transport)/SMGS (Agreement on International Rail Freight
Traffic) consignment note.
These issues are also widely discussed and are within the
competence of transport departments, customs, and railway
organizations of the TRACECA and OTIF member countries, the press
service said.
At the meeting, Asavbayev noted that the application of the
unified CIM/SMGS consignment note, digitalization, and its further
implementation on the railways are priority issues identified in
the strategy and action plan of the TRACECA member countries.
'There are plans to hold a second joint seminar on the use of
the e-consignment, to which representatives of OTIF are invited. In
this regard, it's very useful to share best practices with this
organization,' he said.
In this direction, TRACECA is actively cooperating with the
Organization for Cooperation between Railways, the International
Union of Railways and the CIT Rail international company.
During the meeting, the parties stressed the importance of
transporting goods from China along the Europe-Caucasus-Asia route,
as well as increasing the flow of goods on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars
railway.
The OTIF Secretary General stressed that the organization's
cooperation with China is developing within the framework of the
signed memorandum of understanding and expressed readiness to share
this experience with TRACECA.
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