International Seminar "Freight Transport"
28-30 October 2013, Montevideo (Uruguay)
This international Seminar on Freight Transport was organized jointly by the Technical Committee 2.3 "Freight Transport" of the World Road Association (PIARC), the Uruguayan Roads Association and the Uruguayan Ministry of Transport and Public Works.
Preparatory Documents for the International Seminar
Held in conjunction with the 9th Uruguayan Road Congress, it was attended by 67 delegates mainly from Uruguay, along with other countries from South America; TC 2.3 members represented countries from regions around the world.
The Seminar was divided into five plenary sessions and two'round table' sessions. The plenary sessions included presentations from Uruguay and other countries, covering the planning, management and operation of freight transport, logistics terminals and parks, access to ports, operations at border crossings, and ITS in freight transport. The'round table' sessions provided a valuable opportunity for delegates to discuss issues raised in the plenary sessions in more detail.
The Uruguayan Road Association warmly welcomed delegates and interested them with remarks about the context and growth of freight transport in Montevideo and Uruguay. A briefing of the World Road Association work regarding freight transport and the current work of TC 2.3. followed.
Challenges for Uruguay include managing the growth in the freight task, in particular related to paper and grain production and the increasing proportion of the population living in Montevideo, and the imperative to increase the use of rail for the transport of freight and increase throughput from the Port of Montevideo. Opportunities exist in providing high quality and competitively priced logistics services to South America. Delegates were briefed on initiatives to improve logistics, increase velocity through the deep sea Port, implementing'free trade zones' and intermodal facilities, and implementing ITS to improve compliance checking and logistics operations.
TC 2.3 members delivered presentations describing the findings of the urban freight management and intermodal terminal projects delivered by the World Road Association in recent years, and current work on the concept of'co-modality', as well as other freight transport improvement projects, including BESTFACT (Europe) and the use of high productivity trucks, and provided insights into freight transport in the US and rail freight in Mexico.
On 30 October 2013, delegates participated in a very interesting technical visit, including a tour of the freight operations at Montevideo Airport, a briefing on plans for the development of the Port of Montevideo and a tour of the Port.
The visit of TC 2.3 to Uruguay was very successful, and it was a pleasure for members to visit Montevideo and join the Uruguayan Roads Association, and the Uruguayan Ministry of Transport and Public Works in a very well organised and managed seminar.
International Seminar Program - 28-30 October 2013 | |
First day of the seminar (28 October) | |
Hour |
Conferences |
09:00 |
REGISTRATION |
10:00 |
Opening Remarks |
Speech of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works Uruguayan Roads Association President AIPCR/PIARC Representative Chair of Technical Committee 2.3 Freight Transport | |
12:00 |
Welcome Cocktail |
13:30 |
Plenary Session I - Global Overview of the Planning, Management, Operation, and Enforcement of Freight Transport 1 |
I.1 Uruguay: Road Transport in Uruguay: Challenges of the Last Decade (Spanish) | |
I.2 USA: Freight Transport in USA | |
I.3 Uruguay: Oportunities for the railway in the freight transport market (Spanish) | |
I.4 Argentina: Transport and Infrastructure in South America trade integration. A Pending Issue (Spanish) | |
I.5 Switzerland: BESTFACT: European Project, a Best-Practice Factory for Freight Transport | |
15:30 |
Coffee Break |
16:00 |
Plenary Session II - Global Overview of the Planning, Management, Operation, and Enforcement of Freight Transport 2 |
II.1 Uruguay as a Distribution Center for Southern Brazil (Spanish) | |
II.2 Sweden: Introduction to Co-Modality | |
II.3 Mexico: Inter-modal is not always co-modal: cases in Mexico to understand the Co-Modality concept (Spanish) | |
II.4 Argentina: Current State of Logistics and Operations Outsourcing (Spanish) | |
II.5 Uruguay: Land Freight Transport Information System (Spanish) | |
18:00 |
Round Table - Discussion of Technical Conferences |
Second day of the seminar (29 October) | |
Hour |
Conferences |
09:00 |
Plenary Session III - Logistics Terminals and Parks, urban freight distribution logistics |
III.1 Uruguay: Logistics Parks in Uruguay, a new trend (Spanish) | |
III.2 Uruguay: Logistic Village Montevideo (Spanish) | |
III.3 Switzerland: Inter-modal Freight Terminals: Challenges and Best Practices | |
III.4 Japan: Methodologies and Best Practices in the Management of Freight Transport | |
10:40 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 |
Plenary Session IV - Access to Ports, Operations at Customs Checks and Border Crossings |
IV.1 Uruguay: Access Management System to Nueva Palmira's Grain Terminals (Spanish) | |
IV.2 Uruguay: Port Access Management (Spanish) | |
IV.3 Argentina: Strategic Planning Regarding Road Accessibility to a Port (Spanish) | |
IV.4 Uruguay: Port platforms, Customs Verification Centers and Border Crossings (Spanish) | |
12:40 |
Lunch |
14:00 |
Plenary Session V - Freight Transport, ITS and Cooperation with Industrial Sector |
V.1 Uruguay: Yourview: connecting key high-level logistic data on a web-based platform (Spanish) | |
V.2 France: Evolution of oversized and overloaded vehicles | |
V.3 Uruguay: Developing an automatic E.I.R. (Equipment Interchange Receipt) to detect container sides deformation (Spanish) | |
15:20 |
Coffee Break |
15:50 |
Round Table - Discussion of Technical Conferences |
16:50 |
Conclusions and Closing Ceremony |
Third day of the seminar (30 October) | |
16:50 |
Technical Visit - Cargo Terminal in the Carrasco International Terminal, route on the Bypass Ring, Montevideo See Port |
16:50 |
Closing Cocktail |
Slideshow of the International Seminar in Montevideo
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Tribune of the seminar
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Tribune of the seminar
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Participants of the seminar
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Participants of the seminar