September 18, 2013. The Eurasian Transport Forum will take off at EXPO Exhibition Center in Yekaterinburg tomorrow. The forum is dedicated to the development of the transport industry in the Russian Federation and Ural Federal District and to modernization of transport and transport infrastructure on the basis of a government program called Russia's Transport Strategy in 2013-2020.

Representatives of some 50 transport companies from all parts of Russia are going to attend the event. Among the points on the agenda are insurance, leasing, and railway technologies. The round table discussions participants will talk about such issues as improvements in the implementation of normative acts and economic efficiency of freight forwarding.

During the forum, Sverdlovsk Region-based carriers will also take part in the professional skills contest and in the contest called The Best in Profession.