OREANDA-NEWS. August 29, 2011. The industry major event "Transport Week-2011" is scheduled to be held in Moscow on November 21-26 this year at EcoCentre "Sokolniki", the organizing committee said.

The event was organized by the Russian Ministry of Transport. Operator of the event is "Business Dialogue" Ltd, information operator is The Transport of Russia, the Ministry's official newspaper (Publishing house "Dorogi").

The following events will take place during the "Transport Week" between 23 and 25th November: V Anniversary International Forum that will cover new approaches to holding the events, and the exhibition "Transport of Russia" aimed at presenting the annual results of work carried out by the tranposrt industry to the Government of the Russian Federation, in order to identify perspective directions for further development.

The exposition will be divided into industrial sectors: railway transport, marine and river transport, air transport and civil aviation, automobile transport and roads.

Key feature of the forum is attention paid by the participants to the environmental issues. Leading experts and specialists will be looking at the problems of energy and resources savings, and decreased ecological impact on the environment. Moreover, there will be a number of business meetings, round tables, and conferences in order to accommodate discussions of relevant topics on the development of the transport infrastructure as an important part of the country’s economics.

Anniversary exhibition will also feature some new developments. For the first time it will present infrastructure projects of the regions, along with the transport safety technologies, and eco-transport.

Between 21 and 26 November, "Transport Week - 2011" will host II International Congress ROAD TRAFFIC RUSSIA – 2011 "Organisation of road traffic in the Russian Federation", International road congress "Innovations in road infrastructure",  coordination counsel on transport education, master-class "Organisation of voluntary centres for  participation in mass events, with "Sochi 2014" as an example", finalists of the contest  of student science societies presenting their projects, awards and demonstration of works by the winners of the contest "Young scientists of the transport industry", all-Russia festival of arts "TranspART-2011" for students of transport universities, III Russian sports festival students of transport universities, Open Cup of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation for game sports.

The events of "Transport Week-2011" will be attended by more than 1000 delegates among which are representatives of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, federal departments and agencies, the federal and regional legislative and executive authorities; major Russian and foreign transport, logistics and insurance companies; banks; the industry associations as well as the leading business and industry mass media.

General information sponsor of the "Transport Week - 2011" is OJSC "Aeroflot – Russian Airlines", General sponsors are: OJSC "Russian Railways", OJSC "Sovkomflot", State Transport Leasing Company, FSUE "Rosmorport"; Sponsors: CJSC "VAD", OJSC "Tunnel Brigade № 44", OJSC "TransCreditBank".