The BESTFACT (Best Practice Factory for Freight Transport) project is a Coordination and support action under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. On Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 of June 2013, BESTFACT will organise its third international workshop, which is the second on e-Freight. The workshop is hosted by Lithuanian Railways and will take place at its premises in Vilnius, Lithuania.

In practice, BESTFACT intends to develop, disseminate and enhance the utilisation of best practices and innovations in freight logistics which contribute to meeting European transport policy targets: promoting the boost of competitiveness and decreasing the environmental impacts.

This second international cluster workshop on e-Freight will deal with the top issues, such as corridor information exchange and information management under changing logistics. Well-known representatives from the private and public sector will present in the first session current examples of best practices and results of collaboration and exchange along transport corridors. In second session it will be discuss how e-Freight can support logistics to be adapted under future logistic challenges in the Baltic Region notably on green corridors.

Furthermore, it will present the main targets and challenges in freight transport and logistics and other high priority aspects in the fields of infrastructure, technology and organisation. Finally, a technical visit to the Control Center of Lithuanian Railways will offer the opportunity to see some state-of-the-art solutions for managing transporting goods along East-West corridors.

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