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DOHA: Minister of Transport H E Jassim Saif Ahmed Al Sulaiti yesterday chaired twenty sixth Assembly of the Committee of the Ministers of Transport of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), going down in Qatar (the chair nation), in attendance of GCC ministers of transportation and GCC Secretary-Normal H E Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi.
In his opening speech, Al Sulaiti confused the significance of cooperation and efforts by the ministers of transportation for enhancing the event strategy of the GCC nations and their societies.
He stated that the current years have seen a paradigm shift within the frequent motion in all fields and plenty of optimistic outcomes and successes contemplating a balanced strategy for complete improvement to boost financial and social integration between GCC nations.
He added that the transportation trade attracts nice consideration from the GCC nation leaders, and this helped propel it to extra progress and development, given the truth that many different GCC cooperation areas depend on that sector to realize their improvement plans. A kind of plans, he stated, focuses on connecting GCC nations along with a community of highways, diversifying journey and passenger and cargo transportation choices for residents and beneficiaries of the GCC nations.
Due to GCC nation leaders’ appreciable consideration to the significance of investing in GCC shared initiatives, the minister stated, a number of transportation initiatives have been launched, on high of them is the GCC Railways Venture to attach GCC nations collectively, given the optimistic direct impacts on streamlining GCC commerce motion and contribution to connecting the logistic services and financial and industrial zones to the primary ports, thereby enhancing their financial position and serving to assist the commerce alternate with Asia and Europe, not to mention offering secure companies of passenger and cargo transportation. Al Sulaiti stated that the frequent motion on that venture is advancing considerably, to see the sunshine of the day in 2030.
Today, he added, we’re seeing a serious improvement of GCC ports by way of capability, dealing with, and accommodating all sorts of vessels they usually now occupy excessive rankings by way of effectivity on the World Financial institution’s ports efficiency indicators.
The directives of the GCC leaders, he added, have resulted in GCC nations having superior and ecofriendly transportation infrastructure supported by newest know-how techniques that assist maintain tempo with rising and good applied sciences they usually additionally contribute to activating all of the initiatives on lowering carbon emissions to realize carbon neutrality. The GCC nations’ file of achievements on this regard is internationally acknowledged.
The GCC ministers of transport mentioned a number of subjects to additional improve GCC nations’ cooperation in transportation. In addition they took the required selections on the newest updates on the GCC Railways Authority and Railways Venture such because the Normal Settlement for Connecting the States of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf to the Railway Venture, the chief rules of the GCC uniform system for common land transportation, controls of standard service provider vessels’ entry to the waters and harbours of the GCC States, and the uniform circumstances and controls for granting driving licenses to the offshore models not topic to worldwide maritime conventions, along with a number of different vital subjects.
