Austria hosts business roundtable to strengthen ties with Thailand’s rail industry

Railway infrastructure is one in all Austria’s high precedence sectors in reaching carbon neutrality. In line with the 2030 Mobility Grasp Plan developed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Local weather Motion, Setting, Vitality, Mobility, Innovation and Expertise (BMK), the enlargement to a fair higher community of public transportation is essential for the nation to cut back its emission output additional.

Because of this, Austria plans to take a position 17.5 billion Euros within the home rail infrastructure over the subsequent six years (2021-2026). With all of this comes a substantial amount of exercise into the historically sturdy Austrian Railway sector and Austrian firms search to become involved in initiatives throughout the globe to convey Austrian know-how to worldwide companions.

On Thursday, 8 December 2022, Austrian Embassy Business Part hosted a Rail Roundtable & Enterprise Matching on the Home on Sathorn, W Bangkok Lodge. The programme was part of the two-day “Austria on Monitor – Austria Showcase Occasion 2022”. It was organised by the Benefit Austria Bangkok workplace inside the framework of “Refocus Austria” initiated by the Austrian Federal Authorities to help the Austrian financial system world wide throughout and after the pandemic. By together with this as a part of the internationalisation initiative of the ministry of Labour & Economic system, go-international, nearly all ReFocus Austria Stakeholders have been concerned.

H.E. Mr. Wilhelm M. Donko, the Austrian Ambassador to Thailand gave the Rail Roundtable opening remarks

The roundtable started with the opening remarks delivered by H.E. Mr. Wilhelm M. Donko, the Austrian Ambassador to Thailand and Dr. Georg Weingartner, the Austrian Business Counsellor, adopted by the presentation of Thailand’s rail challenge overview performed by the visitor audio system from the Division of Rail Transport, the Thailand Board of Funding, and Civil Engineering Options (Thailand). The Austrian companies have been then given an opportunity to showcase their merchandise to the viewers.

H.E. Mr. Wilhelm M. Donko, the Austrian Ambassador to Thailand (centre), and Dr. Georg Weingartner, the Austrian Business Counsellor (fifth from proper), had a photograph taken with the visitor audio system and Austrian delegates

4 Austrian companies, particularly, Getzner Werkstoffe GmbH, Linsinger Maschinenbau GmbH, Plasser & Theurer, Export von Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH, and Voestalpine Railway Methods (Thailand) Co., Ltd., together with a number of Thai organisations, such because the State Railway of Thailand, the Mass Fast Transit Authority of Thailand, the Bangkok Expressway and Metro PCL, Thai-Austrian Technical School, Distinctive Engineering and Building PCL, Asia Period One Co., Ltd., Cho Thavee PCL, and others participated on this roundtable.

Given Thailand’s nice ambition to turn into a rail hub in Southeast Asia and Austria has a excessive stage of experience in railway infrastructure, the Rail Roundtable & Enterprise Matching was profitable in bringing consultants from the 2 nations to fulfill and establish areas of future collaboration collectively.

H.E. Mr. Wilhelm M. Donko, Austrian Ambassador to Thailand (left), joined the enterprise dinner on the SRT Status

Following the roundtable, the dinner reception was organised on the SRT Status at Platform 3, Bangkok Railway Station, for the Austrian delegates and Thai authorities representatives to additional their networking alternatives. Since Austria has been concerned in a number of rail initiatives in Thailand and the nation views Thailand as one in all its most vital companions within the area, there isn’t a higher place to host a dinner than at Thailand’s most classical railway station.

Dr. Georg Weingartner (left), the Austrian Business Counsellor, and Mr. Christoph Trocker, the Austrian Government Chef from Banyan Tree Bangkok

Earlier than the nation’s trains will regularly shift to terminate at Krungthep Apiwat Central Station beginning in January 2023, the Austrian Embassy was proud to be the primary embassy within the nation to remodel Bangkok Railway Station and the SRT’s touring practice to be the dinner venue the place genuine Austrian delicacies was served on board.

Group picture with the SRT Status, automobile no. 311

Discover extra concerning the Austrian rail trade: https://www.advantageaustria.org/gb/zentral/publikationen/ae/publikationen/166_Railways.pdf
Discover out extra about Refocus Austria’s occasions: https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/european-foreign-policy/foreign-trade/refocus-austria/event-calendar/