Intercontinental freight road transport operations are possible
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14-10-2005 ::
The truck caravan started in Beijing at the 3rd IRU Euro-Asia Road Transport Conference with the slogan "From Beijing to Brussels, road transport drives progress", arrived in Warsaw, thus demonstrating that road transport is capable to perform intercontinental operations.
The Polish road transport industry and business community has showed significant interest in the truck caravan bridging Asia and Europe. At the press conference on the occasion of the caravan arrival in Warsaw, Mr V. Gorski, representative of Polish Ministry of Infrastructure, thanked the International Road Transport Union for its support to the project designed to bridge Asia and Europe, and indicated that this project is very important for Poland where road transport sector counts more than 66’000 road vehicles and employs over 12’000 people. Mr Y. Guisen, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Poland, said: "I see all prerequisites for successful implementation of this project and hope that trade between Asia and Europe will be carried on the basis of negotiations and appropriate arrangements with no quota and limitations". The complete press-release you will find here. |
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