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LIVE, from Leipzig, Germany: the ITF 2015 Annual Summit

If you couldn’t make it to Germany this year for the International Transport Forum’s Annual Summit, you can watch the live webcasts on the ITF website starting today. From this morning, Wednesday, at 11:00 Central European Time, the live webcast of the event will be available directly at this link: http://2015.internationaltransportforum.org/
May 26, 2015 Read time: 2 mins

If you couldn’t make it to Germany this year for the 1102 International Transport Forum’s Annual Summit, you can watch the live webcasts on the ITF website starting today.

From this morning, Wednesday, at 11:00 Central European Time, the live webcast of the event will be available directly at this link: %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal http://2015.internationaltransportforum.org/ Visit International Transport Forum Website false http://2015.internationaltransportforum.org/ false false%>

The full programme, speaker list, session outlines and more are also available at the same address.

Starting at 11:00, the panel discussion “Crossing Continents: how new routes and technology can improve surface transport” will take place. It will evaluate the potential for, and likelihood of, new and future international routes on land, including highways, and on sea and in the air. For more information about the discussion and participants, click here. %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal http://2015.internationaltransportforum.org/node/240575 Visit International Transport Forum Website false http://2015.internationaltransportforum.org/node/240575 false false%>

Since 2008, the ITF Annual Summit has developed into the leading global get-together of the key players in transport and transport-related sectors, providing a unique platform for high-level exchange on strategic policy issues.
The theme of the 2015 Summit is Transport, Trade and Tourism and it will take place under the Presidency of New Zealand starting today and going until Friday.
More than 1,000 participants from around 70 countries are expected to attend the summit along with transport ministers from all over the globe for two-and-a-half days to discuss the role of transport in a world of growing global trade and rapidly expanding tourism. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will address the ministers via a video message.

The International Transport Forum is an intergovernmental organisation within the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) system. The ITF - the only global body that covers all transport modes - has 54 member countries and acts as think tank for transport policy.

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