Busan



International businessmen and individuals in the transportation and distribution fields will participate in the UN Ministers Conference on Transportation which will commence in Busan on November 6.

The Busan Metropolitan City office announced on November 1 that 44 ministers and deputy secretaries in the transportation industry along with approximately 1,000 high-ranking officials and businessmen from forty countries have confirmed their participation in the conference of the UN ESCAP transportation that will be held at Busan BEXCO and Nurimaru APEC House for six days starting from November 6.

The list of participating public figures in this event includes the vice-president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the director of JP Morgan in the Asia and Pacific region, vice-president of France Alstom, manager of Walmart's head office, Asia and Pacific regional director of DHL, Japanese president of Seven Eleven, Northeast Asia regional representative of MAERSK, chairman of Hamburg port and others. Additionally, former president of Korea Kim Dae-joong, the Assistant Deputy Minister of the US Transportation, and the ADB vice-president will attend and plan to present keynote speeches.

At this event, the Busan Declaration will be finalized and a ceremony for signing an agreement by governments of Trans Asian Railways UN ESCAP will be concluded. The forum of the Asia and the Pacific Business and International fair for transportation and distribution will be presented as well.

The Busan Declaration contains items for reducing traffic accidents, which reach 1,200,000 deaths and fifty million injured every year, and declarations from each minister concerning road safety.

With the signing ceremony between the governments of Trans Asian Railways (TAR), the contents, including railway capacities of trains, loading standards of vehicles and mutual usage of facilities, will be finalized with an agreement that the ministers from 28 countries, including China and Russia, that will attend the conference. TAR connects 28 nations around the Asian continent as an international railway extending a total of 81,000 kilometers. It is divided into four routes: to the north, south, ASEAN and north and south lanes.

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