FIA PRESIDENT ADDRESSES UNITED NATIONS IN GENEVA CALLING FOR ACTION AROUND INLAND TRANSPORT AND MOBILITY

Geneva, Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FIA PRESIDENT ADDRESSES UNITED NATIONS IN GENEVA CALLING FOR ACTION AROUND INLAND TRANSPORT AND MOBILITY

• Mohammed Ben Sulayem, FIA President, addressed the UN Inland Transport Committee as an integral a part of its 87^th Session: Success and Challenges for Inland Transport within the Road to 2030
• Ben Sulayem known as on delegates and world leaders to proceed their efforts and improve worldwide cooperation efforts
• The Session marked the mid-point of the ITC 2030 Strategy

Speaking on the Palais de Nations in Geneva, the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) President, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, addressed the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Inland Transport Committee (ITC) throughout its 87^th Session.

The Session, Success and Challenges for Inland Transport within the Road to 2030, marks the mid-point of the ITC 2030 Strategy and gives the chance to evaluate the implementation of the Strategy thus far, whereas discussing the ambitions, successes, and challenges on the trail to reaching the strategic goals.

The ITC Strategy till 2030 is targeted round 4 pillars, while additionally stipulating street security as a particular precedence:

• Development of regional and world inland transport conventions
• Support to new applied sciences and improvements
• Support to regional, interregional, and world inland transport coverage dialogues
• Promotion of sustainable regional and interregional inland transport connectivity and mobility

Addressing the Ministerial Session, Ben Sulayem known as for motion, urging the delegates in attendance to proceed their work in making cross-border journey smoother, customs clearance quicker, and unsafe items transport safer.

Calling on world leaders to bolster worldwide cooperation efforts, he mentioned: “We much accelerate implementation, strengthen enforcement, and deepen public-private partnerships. Connectivity must not be a privilege – it must be a right.”

Setting out the clear priorities, Ben Sulayem requested the Session to focus their consideration on:

1. Digitalisation of transport procedures: The full implementation of eTIR and eCPD to chop delays and reduce administrative burdens through modern technological options
2. Investment in sustainable infrastructure and fuels: With climate-related dangers projected to succeed in $122 billion, transport corridors should align with decarbonisation targets
3. Stronger public-private partnerships: Leveraging experience from worldwide organisations and business leaders, uniting in shared information and persevering with the momentum created by the close to 1,800 partnerships – many in transport – which are already in place in Europe with a value of $336 billion

Concluding his handle, the FIA President mentioned: “I have dedicated decades to advancing sustainable and connected mobility, and I know what is possible when we turn agreements into actions – and action into lasting change. Now is the time to deliver.”

The ITC is the UN platform to assist effectively handle world and regional wants in inland transport. Over the final 75 years, along with its subsidiary our bodies, the ITC has supplied an intergovernmental discussion board, the place UNECE and United Nations Member States come collectively to forge instruments for financial cooperation and negotiate and undertake worldwide authorized devices on inland transport.

The UNECE is likely one of the 5 regional commissions below the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council and was established to advertise financial cooperation and integration.

About Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA)

The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) is the governing physique for world motorsport and the federation of the world’s main motoring and mobility organisations.

Founded in 1904, with headquarters in Paris and Geneva, the FIA is a non-profit organisation. It brings collectively 245 motoring and motor sport membership members from 149 nations throughout 5 continents. Its Member Clubs characterize tens of millions of motorists, mobility customers and motor sport professionals and volunteers.

The FIA is a central participant in upholding the ideas of security and freedom of mobility and defending mobility’s position as an enabler of sustainable growth, with actions targeted on three key levers.

1. Advocating for the discount of limitations stopping street customers from making extra sustainable and secure transport selections
2. Raising consciousness and offering information for shoppers and policymakers to encourage environmentally accountable behaviour
3. Accelerating power effectivity and low-emission applied sciences

In motor sport, it administers the foundations and rules for all worldwide four-wheel sport, together with throughout all 7 FIA World Championships, to make sure truthful, capably regulated and secure occasions are carried out in all corners of the globe. In the realm of Mobility, the FIA goals to make sure that secure, reasonably priced and clear techniques of transport can be found to all.

• Palais de Nations in Geneva
• Mohammed Ben Sulayem, Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) President

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