OREANDA-NEWS. As part of the Russian-Swedish Business Council, Vnesheconombank together with the Swedish Trade and Investment Council held a bilateral conference on transport infrastructure and traffic management.

In attendance of the conference were representatives of leading Russian and Swedish companies, government and municipal authorities, scientific circles, the Swedish Embassy in the Russian Federation, the Russian Trade Representative Office in Sweden as well as representatives of sectoral subdivisions of Vnesheconombank.

Among Russian participants were representatives of the Russian Trade Ministry, the Moscow Administrative Road Inspection, Rosavtodor Federal Agency, State Company Avtodor, the Coordinating Council on Traffic Management, ROSDORNII and others.

In the course of the conference, its participants made presentations of the most advanced Swedish technologies used to create transport infrastructure facilities as well as energy efficiency approaches to transport construction and innovation road safety management systems.

In his welcoming address to the conference's participants, Director of Vnesheconombank's Export Financing Department DaniilAlgulyan stressed the importance of studying the world's technologies and practices in order to develop integrated transport infrastructure on the basis of international standards.

In the course of the conference its participants discussed practical issues related to forming an advanced transport systemand expressed their interest in continuing cooperation to implement potential joint Russian-Swedish projects.

The Russian-Swedish Business Council is a nongovernmental public organization. The Council's activity is to be undertaken on a pro bono basis uniting Russian and Swedish companies and institutions irrespective of ownership type. Vnesheconombank and Ericsson Concern respectively are to be responsible for coordinating activities of the Council's Russian and Swedish parts and managing its executive bodies.

The Swedish Trade and Investment Council (Business Sweden) was established on January 1, 2013 after the Sweden Trade Council merged with Sweden Invest. The Council's activity is to promote interests of Swedish exporters and raise foreign investments for Sweden. Top priority is given to support small and medium-sized enterprises on foreign markets. The Council is involved in consulting Swedish exporters and taking measures to create joint projects.