Transportation and Logistics With No Borders - 7 February 2008

Intercontinental Hotel, Bucharest, Romania

Proceedings are in English

9:00-09:30 Registration formalities

Chariman opening remarks: Mr. Robin Martens, General Manager, Archicom Srl

9:30-10:30 GOVERMENTAL PANNEL

• Potentials after EU Accession
• Sectoral Operational Programme of Transport 2007-2013
• Opportunities and challenges in Trans-European Networks (TENs)?
• Concession models and legislative issues
• National funds/budgets
• Governmental support of PPP
• Attracting foreign investment into region
• New prospects for PPP

Ministry of Transportation, Constructions and Tourism, Romania (to be confirmed)

Ministry of Public Finance, Romania (to be confirmed)

10:30-11.00 PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN MODERN ROADS INFRASTRUCTURE

• Recent experience of PPP in EU and future prospects in CEE
• PPP influence on Infrastructure and economic development
• PPP as a source of road financing
• Pros and cons of PPP
• Public Sector and private sector opportunities
• Different models of PPP
• PPP implications in countries of CEE

Mr. Robin Martens,General Manager, Archicom Srl – „DEBOOTtm; a PPP & BOT solution for

developing economies” / EIB (to be confirmed)

11:00 – 11:30 KEY LEGAL CHALLENGES IN NEGOTIATING ROAD CONCESSIONS

• Implementing a best-practice process
• Overcoming concerns of the foreign investors
• Identifying CEE government concerns
• Ensuring necessary conditions to secure foreign investment
• Political will to deliver the projects
• Public sector procurement agency’s access to experienced advisors
• Effective management throughout the procurement process
• Promoting competition – with no monopoly

Mr. Robert Gross, Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner, UK

11.30 – 12:00 Reffreshment Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 INTERMODAL/MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT NETWORK

• Challenges of Multi – Modal transportation in CEE
• Fund Rising to built multi – modal centers
• Intermodal Efficiency And Cost Management
• Door-to-door intermodal logistics
• Investments in modern standardized intermodal equipment
• Quality management (ISO 9000)
• Low conflict potential
• Obstacles to Intermodal Transport
• Crating new logistics products and cost savings
• Intermodality increases commercial flexibility and investment security

Mr. David Goldsborough, General Manager, DELAMODE ROMANIA S.R.L.

Ms. Adina Matache, General Manager, Unimasters Logistic Plc, Bulgaria "Collaborative Logistics for Winners"

13:00 – 14:00 Networking Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 TOLLING SYSTEMS OF THE FUTURE

• Maximize revenues, minimize expenses
• Efficient in financing maintenance, upgrading and extension of network
• Pricing policy - high quality services vs. limited purchasing power
• Modern technology
• Commercial interoperability between countries
• Interoperability of electronic toll collection systems

Mr. Josef Czako, Director, International Business Development, Kapsch TrafficCom AG, Austria

14:30 - 15:00 GERMANY: THE BIGGEST AND MOST SOPHISTICATED ELECTRONIC TOLLINGSYSTEM IN THE WORLD

• Best Practice Overview “German Truck Tolling”
• SAT Based Tolling Technologies in the German Truck Tolling
• aktive and passiv DSRC Technologies in the German Truck Tolling
• Enforcement Technologies in the German Truck Tolling
• Future Outlook of SAT based Tolling and Enforcement Technologies

Mr. Markus Kessler, Senior Manager ETC, EFKON AG, Austria

15:00 – 15:30 LOGISTIC & CARGO CENTRES – STRATEGIES & MODELS IN DIFFERENT

COUNTRIES ANNU

• The experience of building logistic & cargo centers in EU locating distribution operations at a site with excellent importation or exportation access
• How the logistics centers and other transport operators co-operate in a network
• Low cost of warehousing and distribution
• Strategic Business Networks improving the co-operation in a network possibilities between the logistics centres and other operators;
• Making of multimodal transport strategies and improving the marketing efforts of logistics centres
• TEN–T corridors – locations for cargo centers
• Logistics and low-cost real estate and superb highway networks
• Terms and conditions for placing of logistic centers of international value
• Border crossing measures and it is influence on developing of cargo Centres

Mr. Laurentiu-Catalin Hanu, Business Development Manager, CTP INVEST ROMANIA -

„EXTENDING UP THE CTPark NETWORK TO ROMANIA”

15:30 – 16:00 WAREHOUSING & LOGISTIC

• Optimal warehouse location analysis
• Logistic solutions tailored to individual needs
• Reporting about stock movements
• Logistic and warehousing IT-Tools
• Outsourcing solutions
• Stock Out management
• Management Information System

Mr. Marc M.T. Paulissen, Country Manager, Centrum Romania – “One stop shopping“

16:00 – 16:30 ROLE OF SECURITY, CUSTOMS & TAXES IN TRANSPORT

• To what extent are these elements of influence on supply chains?
• Achievement of complete system flexibility
• How can you use these elements to boost business?
• What room do EU-regulations offer?

PWC Romania (to be confirmed)

16:30 – 17:30 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

• Review current IT infrastructure in light of new business requirements
• Management Information solutions to support KPI production and visibility
• Transport Management Systems for planning & execution of transport
• Consider technology support for drivers (status tracking, tachographs, communication, etc.)
• IT enterprise management & security
• Automatic vehicle location – AVL
• GPS services
• 4PL Solutions
• Implementing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
• Implementation of traffic information systems that are mutually interoperable
• Euro satellite radio navigation system GALILEO. What are its expected benefits?

Mr. Dan Cotenescu, Manager, DACODASOFT SRL – „BursaTransport“
Ms. Ecaterina Mocanu, Managing Director, Cefin Systems Romania S.r.l.

17:30 – 18:30 Cocktail reception and Conference Close

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