TEHRAN -- The Second International Iran Transit Forum will be held in the presence of ministers and high-ranking officials of Iran and 30 other states and 40 international bodies at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Conference Hall in northwestern Tehran from July 15-16.

Mohammad Bokharaei, Iran Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization head and the forum secretary, said the second conference aims to boost economic efficiency of the transit sector, to develop the infrastructures, and to expand cooperation among various business associations.

Bokharaei, also deputy minister of road and transportation, added, "In addition to government officials, the representatives of international organizations including International Road Transport Union (IRU), World Bank (WB), Islamic Development Bank (IDB), International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA), Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), International Union of Railways (UIC), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and TIR Convention will attend the two-day forum."

The participants will discuss performance, policies, capabilities, and transport and transit perspectives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, participation, investment, development of transport and transit, infrastructures, transport facilities, regional cooperation, marketing, structures of guilds, forwarding industry, fuel transit and combined transport, markets, and regional outlooks.

The deputy minister said the forum would help build national, regional, and international convergence in a bid to apply and develop Iran's transit potentials.

Although creation of new transit opportunities is regarded an important strategy and despite the fact that economic strategists of the international transport sector are always seeking new ways and stage competition in the transit routes, it is of greater importance to safeguard these opportunities and make them sustainable as their preservation requires best