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President: developing container deliveries between Europe and Asia is Latvian transport industry's priority

BC, Riga, 10.07.2017.Print version
Developing container cargo deliveries between Europe and Asia is the Latvian transport industry’s priority, President Raimonds Vejonis said at the opening of Transit and Logistics Week at Astana Expo 2017 fair today, informs LETA.

Photo: president.lv

“Latvia plays an essential role in the East-West connection - it serves as a bridge to Northern Europe. As times change, transport services change as well, and the importance of container deliveries, which is Latvia’s top priority, is only increasing. Kazakhstan is Latvia’s biggest and most reliable partner in the Central Asian region and these days we have been holding talks on expanding our cooperation,” said Vejonis.

 

Kazakhstan’s First Deputy Prime Minister Askar Mamin voiced hope that Transit and Logistics Week will be a good impulse for new cooperation projects.

 

“Latvia has the potential to develop new logistics centers and thus increase its involvement in the New Silk Road project, as well as many other transport corridors both in the East-West direction and the North-South direction. The task of Kazakhstan’s government, meanwhile, is to remove barriers to the flow of transit cargo. It is necessary to develop new joint transport industry projects in addition to the grain terminal in Ventspils Port and Baltika-Tranzit container train,” said Mamin.

 

As reported, Astana Expo 2017 opened in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on June 10, and Latvia is represented in the international fair with its own stand, the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry reported.

 

The expo's theme is "Future Energy", and it is aimed to concentrate on the future of energy and on innovative and practical energy solutions and their impacts.

 

The pavilion of Latvia is called “Energy in Our Nature”. Latvia demonstrates advantages of its geographical location and ways to create added value with Latvian companies and high-level experts in various areas.






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