During the period from 5 till 7 March 2024, an expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock was held at the OSJD Committee (Warsaw) on subtopic 5.2 “Wagons and Coaches” of subject No. 5 “Rolling stock for railways. Technical requirements as to its elements”, which was attended by the representatives from the following OSJD railways: Byelorussian Railway (BC), Hungarian State Railways Co. (MAV-START Co.), “Kazakhstan Temir Zholy National Company” JSC (KTZ NC JSC), Lithuanian Railways JSC (LTG), Railway of Moldova State Enterprise (CFM), Russian Railways OJSC (RZD OJSC), Railways of the Slovak Republic (ZSR), Ukrainian Railways JSC (Ukrzaliznytsia JSC), as well as from the OSJD affiliated enterprise – Railway Research Institute (Republic of Poland) and the OSJD Committee.

In accordance with the Work Plan of the OSJD Commission on Freight Traffic for 2024 under the subject “Coordination of the volumes of the goods carried in international freight traffic”, the meeting was held in the period from 26 February till 1 March 2024 (OSJD Committee, Warsaw) in a videoconferencing mode of the representatives from the railways and foreign trade organisations of the Republic of Belarus, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Republic of Kazakhstan, People’s Republic of China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, Republic of Uzbekistan, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Islamic Republic of Iran for the coordination of the volumes of export, import and transit goods carried by railway transport for 2024 and the measures to ensure them (hereinafter referred to as the meeting).

The regular meeting of the OSJD Committee members No. 1-2024 was held on 23 February 2024 in a hybrid format. Within the framework of the approved agenda, members of the OSJD Committee reviewed and adopted reports on the:

According to the Work Plan of the OSJD Commission on Transport Policy and Development Strategy, from 6 till 8 February 2024, an expert meeting was held at the OSJD Committee (Warsaw) on the subject “Directions for the strategic development of railway transport in OSJD member countries”, which was attended by the representatives of the OSJD member countries from the Republic of Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Georgia, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Lithuania, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Republic of Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Republic of Estonia.

In accordance with the Work Plan of the OSJD Commission on Transport Policy and Development Strategy, on 29-30 January, the first consultative meeting in 2024 of the countries participating in the OSJD Railway Transport Corridor (RTC) No. 1 was held with the participation of the representatives of the countries participating in the OSJD RTC No. 1 from the Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, People’s Republic of China, Mongolia, Russian Federation, Republic of Uzbekistan and Republic of Estonia, as well as the OSJD Committee. Moreover, representatives of the Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL) participated as observers.

In accordance with the Work Plan of the OSJD Commission on Passenger Traffic for 2024, from 23 to 24 January 2024 a videoconferencing meeting of the experts of the OSJD railways was held at the OSJD Committee (Warsaw) on the subject “Management of station buildings and passenger railway stations”.

In 2023, the OSJD Commission on Transport Policy and Development Strategy continued its work on the formation of a uniform railway transport policy of the OSJD member countries with regard to the implementation of comprehensive measures aimed at the improvement of traffic and development of the OSJD transport corridors

On 16 January 2024 the OSJD Committee was paid a working visit by the delegation of Ulan-Bator Railway JSC (UBZD), which was represented by Enkhtsogt Nyamjav, Deputy Head of UBZD JSC on Administrative Issues, and Sumyaadorj Sandavdorj, Head of Business Administration Service of the UBZD JSC.

In 2023 the work on the development of international passenger traffic in the post-pandemic period continued on the railways of the OSJD member countries. The outcomes of this work, as well as many other issues and tasks related to the organisation and operation of international passenger traffic were discussed at the final meeting of the OSJD railways representatives to consider the results of the work of the OSJD Commission on Passenger Traffic for 2023.

From 7 to 9 November 2023 in the OSJD Committee (Warsaw) the experts and representatives of the railways of the OSJD member countries, OSJD affiliated enterprises and international organisations gathered again for the final meeting of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock in order to consider the results of activities for the previous year and to define further tasks for the next period.