Press conference by the non-profit-making partnership the Council of Participants in the Railway Rolling Stock Services Market.

A press conference with representatives of the non-profit-making partnership the Council of Participants in the Railway Rolling Stock Services Market will take place on 1 June 2011 as part of the VI International Rail Business Forum “1520 Strategic Partnership”.

During the press conference representatives of the partnership will talk about the priority areas of work in connection with obtaining the status of a self-regulating organisation, and also about the role of the partnership in implementing the strategic market model of rail freight transport.

Taking part in the press conference will be:

• S.V. Maltsev, Chairman of the Presidium and Chief Executive Officer of Globaltrans
• A.A. Sapronov, member of the Presidium and Chief Executive Officer of Nezavisimaya Transportnaya Kompaniya
• I.V. Chiganashkina, member of the Presidium and Chief Executive Officer of Inter Cargo Company
• D.O. Korolyov, Executive Director
• S.N. Brokar, lawyer and consultant on legal and regulatory frameworks

The moderator of the press conference will be A.S. Retyunin, editor in chief of RZD Partner magazine and the Gudok newspaper.

Location: Congress Hall
Starts at 15.00 1 June 2011

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PR Service, Business Dialogue
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For editors: the non-profit-making partnership the Council of Participants in the Railway Rolling Stock Services Market was registered on 15 July 2009. The 26 companies that make up the partnership are responsible for operating about 700,000 items of rolling stock, including 136,000 containers (70% of the national fleet).
One of the partnership’s main objectives is to create an authoritative arena for holding a constructive dialogue between rolling stock operators and RZD and the state regulatory bodies. The partnership’s main area of work is addressing issues connected with improving the legal and regulatory and tariff framework of freight transport, and with creating new systems for managing the transport process in the context of reform of the railway industry, taking into account the interests of all participants in the rail transport market. For additional information, please call the partnership’s press office on +7(903)121-27-87. Detailed information about the partnership is available at www.railsovet.ru