LITHUANIAN AND BALTIC SEA REGION TRANSPORT ISSUES DISCUSSED AT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR GLOBAL LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION
Simonas Šatūnas, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Lithuanian Embassy in the United States, participated in the Annual Conference of the Association for Global Logistics and Transportation, that was held in Anchorage, Alaska on September 23-24. He shared the Baltic States experience, and that of Lithuania in particular, in transport link development and the creation of transit corridors to the Eastern neighbors of the European Union: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, as well as countries of the Central Asia.
Participating experts representing the United States transportation logistics companies were familiarized with the active container train projects “Saule” and “Vikingas” and introduced to the activities of the East-West Transport Corridor Association, established in Vilnius in 2010. Mr. Šatūnas has also shared the Lithuanian experience in participating in the Northern Distribution Network, created to ensure efficient cargo supply delivery to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) partners in Afghanistan.
This year the Conference and the Transport Solutions Exhibition in Alaska welcomed more than 900 participants, with the high-ranking Pentagon officials and logistics specialists from the United States Armed Forces among its speakers.
Deputy Chief of Mission of Lithuania participated in the discussion alongside logistics companies representatives from both the United States and Europe. Various opportunities and potential for supply chain formation in South America, Europe, Eastern Europe, South-East Asia and Africa were under discussion during the Conference session.
