Qatar Railways Co (Qatar Rail) will host the inaugural UIC RAME “International Conference on Railway Interoperability, Standardisation, Harmonisation for the Middle East” on March 30 and 31, at Doha Sheraton Hotel.
The conference is being organised by UIC and UIC Middle East and planned in co-operation with OTIF (Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail) and CIT (International Rail Transport Committee) to provide a unique opportunity to discuss the latest development in optimising international cross-border rail transport.
More than 100 industry leaders, including members from the management team at Qatar Rail and decision makers from Siemens are expected to participate.
Qatar Rail will present a plan on cross-border operations discussing its project of long distance rail network for passengers and freight and the interoperability between the GCC states.
The Qatar Rail project will connect major centres of population and industries in Qatar and will form part in the planned GCC railway network linking the six GCC states.
Abdulla Abdulaziz Turki al-Subaie, managing director, Qatar Rail, said, “The long distance rail network will run for approximately 510km and is being developed in phases to meet commitments made to the GCC and domestic passenger and freight demands. We hope the conference would successfully discuss cross-border operations and help us establish an effective rail network in our region.”
OTIF, CIT and UIC aim to address all determining interoperability issues in the technical, operational, legal and regulatory fields, including the areas such as transport law, regulations, agreements, contracts aiming to facilitate cross-border operations and international wagon use, transport of dangerous goods, progress in railway standardisation and harmonisation in traffic management, safety management systems, asset management, and operations on international corridors.
Abdulla Abdulaziz Turki al Subaie, managing director, Qatar Rail
