Mr. Kenjiro Masuda, President of the Association of Trans-Siberian Intermodal Operators of Japan (TSIOAJ); Mr. Harm Sievers, President of the Group of European Trans-Eurasian Operators and Forwarders (GETO); Ms Olga Melnikova, President of the Russian Freight Forwarders Association, and Mr. Saunat Mynbaev, Chairman of the Board, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy NC JSC, in their reports will indicate the factors constraining the attraction of additional volumes of cargo for transportation on TSR and on behalf of the European, Japanese, Russian and Kazakh businesses will make proposals on how to increase commercial attractiveness and competitiveness of cargo transportation in the international traffic

Mr. Gennady Bessonov, CCTT Secretary General, will report on the results of the CCTT Secretariat and members’ activities to implement the decisions made at the 28th Plenary Meeting (please refer to Report of the CCTT Secretariat on implementing the decisions of the 28th CCTT Plenary Meeting in the Participant’s Pack).

Heads and plenipotentiary representatives of CCTT member railway state transport authorities will make presentations on the following issues: Modernization of existing infrastructure, creating new infrastructure capabilities for improving the competitiveness of the East – West, North – South ITCs; practice of transport activity on the TSR: successful cooperation and promising projects; tariff rate optimisation; summary of freight operations on the TSR for the last year;

The leaders of the CCTT working groups on increasing the competitiveness of the East-West ITC, on increasing the competitiveness of the North-South ITC, on the development of Far Eastern multimodal transportation, on the development of information technologies and on the harmonization of international transport law will give reports on the areas and results of practical activities of the CCTT working groups.

Heads of leading CCTT member forwarding and operator companies are to present successful intermodal transport services in the Asia-Europe connection, share their experience in creating competitive transport and logistics products, propose measures to increase the efficiency of cargo transportation in international traffic using the infrastructure of CCTT member railways and seaports.

Authorized representatives of IT companies will share their experience in the implementation of paperless document flow and intelligent systems and technologies in order to ensure the acceleration of cargo transportation in international traffic.
Participants of the meeting will be provided with information on the implementation of the CCTT "Electronic Train" and "Integration Digital Platform" projects.

Heads of sea ports of Russia, China, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden and etc. (CCTT members) will inform the meeting participants on the data on cargo turnover of sea ports, short- and long-term priorities of infrastructure and equipment modernization. There will be presented the methods of forming the effective cooperation with railways and synchronisation of freight operation with other participants of supply chains.
The speakers will present trends in the cargo base classification and share experience on maintaining competitive port positions in an environment of the economic downturn: freight operation diversification, cost optimization, priority development of container handling.

Under this agenda item, heads of security and operator companies will inform the meeting participants about measures to ensure the safety of goods on the railway and about the progress in the implementation of the CCTT "Security Train" project. Issues related to the introduction of a end-to-end technology for ensuring the safety and security of goods, including risk insurance, real-time monitoring of the state of cargo and rolling stock, general tracking of cargo flows using GLONASS technologies, rapid response to emergency situations, etc. will be discussed. The meeting participants are to be informed of the experience of electronic identification, navigation and control tools.

Heads and authorized representatives of international organizations will inform the meeting participants on the main activities in which cooperation and interaction with CCTT is carried out.

Admission of new CCTT members;
Approval of the CCTT Vice-Chairmen;
Changes of the status and in the personnel of CCTT members;
Approval of the Board of CCTT;
Approval of the composition of the CCTT Working Groups for 2020-2021;
Approval of the work plans of the CCTT Working Groups for 2020-2021;
Approval of the CCTT projects for 2020-2021;
Approval of the budget of the CCTT Representative Office for 2020-2021;
Information on the CCTT Plenary Meeting’s Host for 2021.