HRH Premier to patronise Arab Engineering Conference

Manama, Mar. 18 (BNA): The Kingdom is set to host the 27th Arab Engineering Conference, organised by the Bahrain Society Engineers on March 29-30. His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa will patronise the two-day event, themed "Transportation in the Arab World and the Prospects for its Development and Integration between Arab Countries". The conference, the largest and most comprehensive engineering event in the Arab World, will promote the development and dissemination of innovative solutions and best practices that will be needed to meet Transport needs in the Arab world. It provides a forum to discuss and showcase major transport projects and accomplishments in the entire Arab World. Transport sector in the Arab world faces major challenges, especially during this period of sharp decrease in oil prices. This conference will provide a venue for transport professionals to interact, share and exchange experience of transport development, operation and maintenance and technology usage. The conference will consist of two main components: Conference sessions and a technical exhibition. The technical programme will consist of plenary and technical sessions featuring innovation and best practices in the areas of the listed topics in the brochure. The technology and commercial exhibition will be held in parallel with the conference showcasing the best companies active in the Arab World. The conference aims to enhance the role of Arab engineering in planning, implementation and evaluating infrastructure projects in the field of transportation, and study the means which ensure that transportation projects will have priorities in the budgets maintained for development projects in the Arab World. It also aims to identify engineering parameters for the construction of transportation projects and attempting to adopt homogeneous and compatible criterion that ensure easy integration of such projects and exchange of expertise between Arab engineers, universities and scientific research centers.