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Gold sponsor
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2004, HP revenue totaled $78.4 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
Silver sponsor
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients. More than 120,000 people in 139 countries connect their thinking, experience and solutions to build public trust and enhance value for clients and their stakeholders.
As the leading provider of financial, procurement, tax and accounting advisory services to the public and private sectors on PPP projects around the world, PwC continues to lead the Project Finance International league tables for the total value of successful deals won. To date this includes advice on over 240 signed projects around the world, with a total capital of over US $44 billion.
Our experience in the global PPP/ project finance market over the last ten years includes advising public sector bodies on projects in a wide range of sectors such as transport (e.g. London Underground PPP, the largest PPP created to date), defence, prisons, education and health. Within the international market PwC has established PPP frameworks in countries including Ireland, South Africa, Japan and Germany, and advised on a range of projects in other territories including Canada and Australia.
For further information about how our expert team can help you or to download a copy of our recently published thought leadership entitled The trans-European transport network – from aspiration to reality, please visit www.pwc.com/igu
Silver Sponsor
The IMPACTE project aims to promote sustainable access for ports and a better balance of moving freight to markets by rail. It also defines the economic value of ports and their crutial role in faciltating global competitiveness for our regional economies.
This encompasses sustainable distribution (rail and short sea shipping focusing on environmental benefits and co-modality) of general freight within North West Europe (NWE) and maximising the economic development role of ports. This is to be achieved by investments in small-scale infrastructure, the completion of focused studies and the development of a spatial strategy for the Channel Arc.
The key issues that the IMPACTE project will address relate to fundamental trans-national issues for NWE and make a direct contribution to the sustainable development of NWE.
Environment
The role of ports in reducing HGV km by means of modal shift to rail for inland distribution and through the development of short sea shipping services to take unit load cargo closer to the inland origins and destinations of traffic.
Economic development & regeneration
The role of ports in maximising the added value from the cargo passing through the ports and in facilitating the regeneration of communities around the ports.
Co-modality
The issue of how to integrate modes of transport to secure modal shift and increase efficiency. Small-scale investments include the development or extension of two small intermodal terminals at (or close to) ports and involve the development of RoRo facilities at two rail-linked RoRo ports.
Competitiveness
Supporting the development of a more integrated transport chain should lead to improved flexibility, quantity and cost effectiveness and may therefore serve to provide some competitiveness benefits at European, national and regional levels.
Partnerships
The IMPACTE project boasts a partnership of 27 organisations (private, public and voluntary sector) from France, the UK and Belgium.
Silver Sponsor
White & Case Transport Practice
The White & Case Transport practice provides private and public sector participants in transport development projects around the globe with timely, efficient and innovative solutions for meeting the most difficult legal challenges. White & Case is an effective, reliable resource for equity investors, lenders, governments, construction companies, developers and transportation carriers involved in the development and financing of transport projects in all regions of the world.
Our rail advisory team is intimately familiar with railway industry operation, development and financing matters, and has extensive experience working with train operators, infrastructure providers, rolling-stock builders, lessors, lessees, governments, regulatory bodies and financiers on all aspects of the railway industry. It is led by one of the world's pre-eminent rail lawyers, who joined White & Case in 2004 after five years as the British Rail Regulator and International Rail Regulator. Our transport team was named “Rail Finance Law Firm of the Year 2005” by Jane’s Transport Finance for its work on the Perpignan-Figueras high-speed rail link between France and Spain.
Our practice advises on rail, road, airport and other infrastructure projects around the globe. Project sponsors, governments and project lenders turn to us to advise them on some of their largest and most complicated projects, including many of which have received “Deal of the Year” awards in recent years for their innovative nature.
Our Transport practice forms part of our global Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance Practice which is active throughout the world and which is a market-leading adviser for project finance. Our Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance Practice advises on some of the largest and most prominent oil and gas, power, infrastructure, metals & mining and telecoms deals in the world.
Recent accolades for our work include:
- Top of the Transport Global Legal Advisors League Table 2005 - Infrastructure Journal
- “Transportation and Infrastructure Legal Advisor of the Year 2005” — Infrastructure Journal
- “Global Law Firm of the Year 2005” — Project Finance International
- “US Law Firm of the Year 2005 ” — The Lawyer
- “Infrastructure Team of the Year 2005” — The Lawyer
White & Case
White & Case is an international law firm with nearly 2,000 lawyers based in 36 offices across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas and Asia. Our clients value both the breadth of our network and depth of our US, English and local law capabilities in each of our offices and rely on us for their complex cross-border commercial and financial transactions and for international arbitration and litigation. Whether in established or emerging markets, the hallmark of White & Case is our complete dedication to the business priorities and legal needs of our clients. Our approach is based on listening to the needs and desires of our clients, taking the time to understand their business and responding with effective strategies and solutions, no matter how enormous the opportunity or formidable the challenge. We work with the world's most established and respected companies, including 73 percent of the Global Fortune 100, as well as with start-up visionaries, governments and state-owned entities.
Silver sponsor
Amadeus is the chosen technology partner for providers, sellers, and buyers of travel. The company provides distribution, IT and point-of-sale solutions to help its customers adapt, grow and succeed in the fast changing travel industry. Customer groups include travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railway companies, ferry lines, cruise lines, insurance companies and tour operators), travel sellers (travel agencies) and travel buyers (corporations and travellers). Solutions are grouped in four solution categories – Distribution & Content, Sales & e-Commerce, Business Management and Services & Consulting.
Amadeus continues to pursue its strategy of providing travel technology not only help adapt rail to the air reservation and IT environment, but provide fully integrated solutions for key railway operator segments. Amadeus Rail specialises in developing technology & marketing solutions for the world’s rail industry. With a proven track record and over 60 million rail reservations being processed annually through its technology.
Amadeus has pioneered the integration of rail distribution in its corporate booking tools and was the first travel technology company to enable High Speed Rail to display their availability & fares alongside air on key city pairs. Thus allowing for the first time high speed railways and airlines to compete on the same routes and also complimenting each other with interlining short and long haul services.
There exists an innovative product portfolio covering High Speed Rail, International Rail, Domestic Rail and Airport Express for both distribution and IT solutions, providing fully integrated, standardised and multi-channel products.
www.amadeus.com/railwaycompanies
Associate sponsor
Steer Davies Gleave is a leading independent transport consultancy providing services to government, operators, regulators, financiers and other interest groups. With continued growth over our 25 years in operation and more than 300 consultants worldwide, Steer Davies Gleave has an unparalleled breadth of specialist expertise available for our clients. Our aspiration is to provide clients with the insight needed to make sound decisions and significant progress in what is often a complex planning and operating environment. Our clients include the Strategic Rail Authority, Network Rail, European Commission, Department for Transport, Association of Train Operating Companies, Rail Passengers Council, Laing Rail, Trenitalia, Bombela, Virgin Trains, ScotRail and Swiss Rail, amongst others. www.steerdaviesgleave.com
Associate Sponsor
Jeppesen, a fully-owned subsidiary of Boeing, are recognised as one of the world’s foremost providers of information and business support solutions to the transportation industry. In particular, the Rail, Logistics, and Terminals Division of Jeppesen market, develop, and implement systems to passenger and freight railways, postal and courier companies, plus air and maritime terminals, worldwide. Jeppesen acquired the Swedish Operations Research company Carmen Systems AB in June 2006, following Carmen’s acquisition of the Australian OR company Opcom Pty. Ltd. one year earlier.
Clients using Jeppesen’s crew and fleet management solutions include Danish Railways, Deutsche Bahn, Green Cargo of Sweden, SNCF French Railways, Amtrak, Rail Gourmet, Port of Göteborg, Australia Post, and Cadbury Schweppes.
Jeppesen are also world-leading within the aviation sector, delivering solutions that cover worldwide flight information, flight operations services, international trip planning services, aviation weather services and aviation training systems. Airline clients using Jeppesen’s crew planning solutions include Air France, Alitalia, British Airways, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Mexicana, Northwest Airlines, SAS, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airways. For more information, please visit www.jeppesen.com/carmen
Associate sponsor
Ab Ovo, founded in 1997, is a fast growing, innovative and independent ICT services and products provider with powerful propositions. Our true strength lies in the combination of a profound knowledge of logistic business processes, a thorough management experience and our in-depth knowledge of ICT.
We offer our customers a full range of consultancy and management services in ICT related issues. Particularly in the rail industry we are strongly positioned with references such as the Railion Group (The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark), ProRail, EWS (English, Welsh and Scottish Railways), National Express Group and the Estonian Railways. Key areas of expertise are advanced planning & scheduling, front-/back office applications and optimisation of resource deployment. Besides this we offer our customers a full range of ICT related consultancy and project/interim management services.
Exhibitors
KEYMILE is a leading manufacturer and supplier of Next-Generation Access Systems with integrated central network management. Boasting a product spectrum which extends from IP-DSLAMs to Multi-Service Access platforms and SHDSL transmission solutions through to specific transmission systems for industrial Ethernet applications, KEYMILE’s competence and expertise is documented by more than 16 million access lines in over 100 countries. The company, which is headquartered in Vienna, is represented by subsidiaries worldwide and has numerous clients among telecommunications network operators from both the public and private sectors.
Since 1974, Teltronic has dedicated to the design and manufacture of radio communication equipment and systems. The main markets addressed by Teltronic are Emergency and Security Forces, Public Transport Companies, Utilities, PAMR operators and other private customers.
We offer personalized customer service to attend to requirements, including customized design, special software and technical training.
Teltronic´s portfolio includes the TETRA NEBULA® infrastructure, based on the Tetra over Ethernet/IP concept, a 2nd generation Tetra mobile terminal (MDT-400), with GPS and GSM capabilities and last generation display, the new Tetra handportable HTT-500, with 3W RF power, also the desktop dispatchers unit (DT-410) and dispatching centres with a digital switch which allows VoIP operation as well as interfacing with other radio networks (conventional, MPT-1327, GSM) and telephone networks (ISDN, PBX, etc.,).
NEBULA® does not need synchronous communication means to link the Base Stations with the Central Node Controllers, nor any GPS synchronization for full TETRA operation up to Type 3 handover. NEBULA® is TETRA over your corporate LAN/WAN.
Contact Danny Featherstone, Project Manager today! Tel: +44 20 7092 1286 e-mail: danny.featherstone@terrapinn.com, and secure your premium sponsorship of Europe’s leading strategic rail conference.
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