Lunchtime Session

• Do maritime subsidies enhance regional growth, well-being and land-side connectivity? If so, in what ways?
• How can foreign investment in maritime assets create positive local spillover effects?
• What is the impact on ports and related policies?

Ensuring adaptation and resilience of transport networks remains high on the policy agenda across ITF member countries, especially in the wake of natural (such as climate change related), political and economic events.

• What are effective strategies for increasing resilience and improving network reliability?
• How can built-in redundancy, enhanced management capacity and preparedness contribute to more resilient transport networks? How can international cooperation and contingency planning for resilience enable this?

The session may feature a diverse set of case studies, such as of Euro-Asia supply chains.

The ITF’s Decarbonising Transport initiative is a global, data-driven, multi-stakeholder initiative of over 70 key stakeholders to support the transition to carbon neutral transport. It is the ITF’s major contribution to better understanding of how to ensure a low-carbon future for transport.

This initiative aims to build capacity to help close the gaps between climate commitments and carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions that mitigation actions will deliver on their strategic objectives by providing the best possible assessment of the impact of given mitigation policies.