Minister highlights Qatar's achievements in transport infrastructure at Beijing forum

HE the Minister of Transport Jassim Saif Ahmed al-Sulaiti has highlighted Qatar’s achievements at the Global Sustainable Transport Forum 2024 in Beijing Wednesday. While addressing the plenary session, he stated that Qatar has to date achieved 73% electrification in its public bus fleet. The minister noted that sustainability is the cornerstone of the Transportation Master Plan for Qatar, which includes an integrated package of initiatives and projects built on key pivots."Those pivots are mainly the use of clean energy sources on public transportation, supporting transportation electrification, rolling out smart mobility and expressway projects along with their supportive infrastructures and laws, and managing the demand on land transportation, and other mobility technologies. "The goal is to achieve integration among all these elements and improve their networking, reduce traffic congestion and protect the environment to leave behind a real legacy for current and coming generations,” HE al-Sulaiti said.Qatar’s vision for seamless mobility is a necessity to achieve economic growth and sustainability, the minister said while calling for concerted action and for governments, the private sector and civil society to work closely to make this vision a reality. "Qatar will continue developing all transportation industry’s activities and services and reinforcing its collaboration with UN and global stakeholders in this area, to achieve a vision of sustainable public transportation and infrastructure,” he added.HE the minister also participated in the inauguration of the forum under the theme; "Sustainable Transport: Connecting the World through Logistics. In attendance were the Chinese transport minister, several Arab and foreign ministers and senior officials, mobility and logistics industry leaders, regional and global organisation representatives, and CEOs of major transportation companies from around the world.The two-day GSTF discusses the importance of enhancing and connecting global transportation systems, exchanging expertise and innovative technologies, fostering sustainability, reinforcing the efforts aimed at reducing carbon emissions, protecting the environment, and deepening global partnerships in world mobility industry.