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).

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 and plenipotentiary representatives of CCTT member governmental and transport authorities, railways will make presentations on activities carried out to develop Asia – Europe rail corridors, enhancing competitiveness of Trans-Eurasian freight transportation.

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. Plenipotentiaries shall share the information on practical IPI rail transportation.
• Development of container transportation by rail through the border crossing Dostyk/Altynkol,
• Development of container transportation by rail through the border crossings Zamyn-Uud/Erlyan and Naushki/Sukhbaatar
• Development of container transportation by rail through the Grodekovo/Suifenhe border crossing
• Development of container transportation by rail through the border crossing Zabaykalsk/Manzhouli
• Development of container transportation by rail through the border crossing Hunchun/Makhalino.
• Development of multimodal transportation through North-Western and Far Eastern ports. Line container services.
• Practice in the IPI and e-commerce goods transportation by rail.

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.

Heads and authorized representatives of international organizations (UNECE ITC, ESCAP, UPU, WCO, ECE, OTIF, CIT, OSJD, UIC, NECLA, IBS, TNO, PANTEA, EWTCP, EIA, CER, UIRR, AСEX, FERRMED) will inform the meeting participants on the main activities in which cooperation and interaction with CCTT is carried out.

• Admission of new CCTT members;
• Signing memorandums of cooperation;
• Changes of the status and in the personnel of CCTT members;
• Approval of the work plans of the CCTT Working Groups for 2020-2021;
• Approval of the CCTT projects for 2020-2021;
• Setting CCTT membership fee rates for 2021;
• Approval of the budget of the CCTT Representative Office for 2020-2022;
• Information on the CCTT Plenary Meeting’s Hosts for 2021 - 2022.