The Republican seminar on energy saving in the transport industry will be held on May 14 in Vitebsk

May 13, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. The main directions of energy saving policy in the transport industry will be discussed at a republican seminar to be held on May 14 in Vitebsk. This was reported to BELTA correspondent by the press service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Belarus. The seminar will bring together more than 200 heads of transport enterprises from all regions of Belarus, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, Belarusian Railways, the Belavtodor department, and scientific organizations of the industry. During the event, it is planned to summarize the results of work of enterprises and organizations on reducing fuel and energy consumption for 2009 and to define the main tasks of the industry in the field of energy saving for the future. Seminar participants will learn about the experience of implementing energy-saving measures in organizations of Belavtodor and Belarusian Railways. Specialists from the Vitebsk branch of Belarusian Railways will present their developments and energy-saving projects implemented recently. Within the framework of the seminar, an exhibition of modern energy-saving technologies, systems and equipment, and promising technologies for waste processing into fuel will be held, which are proposed for implementation and may be in demand in organizations of the transport industry. The Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus will present promising developments in the energy-saving sphere. The Ministry of Transport and Communications of Belarus is the organizer of the seminar. -0-