SITL Real Time 2007 on the road to success

The SITL Real Time trade show will be held in Paris from 27 to 29 March 2007. There will be over 400 exhibitors and 15,000 trade visitors visiting 19,500m² of exhibits. In the following interview, Alain Bagnaud, Chief Executive for the Logistics and Marketing Department at Reed Expositions France, presents the event.

[ClickPress, Tue Feb 20 2007] The SITL Real Time trade show will be held in Paris from 27 to 29 March 2007. There will be over 400 exhibitors and 15,000 trade visitors visiting 19,500m² of exhibits. In the following interview, Alain Bagnaud, Chief Executive for the Logistics and Marketing Department at Reed Expositions France, presents the event.

Alain Bagnaud, what is your overall impression of this 24th SITL Real Time trade fair, to be held in less than two months' time?

Concerning the exhibition itself, the target of 350 exhibitors will not only be reached but, in fact, surpassed with 420 companies currently signed up. The large majority of the big logistics and transport groups will be attending, of course, but we will also be hosting a number of SMEs in the transport sector, such as Allofret, Transports Legendre, Grimonprez Logistique and Transports Malherbe. This will satisfy shippers who are keen to make contact with these companies.

SITL is the ideal venue for organising such meetings. In fact, we have created an SME Club to support this trend, enabling companies to group together in a single pavilion and save money on their participation charges. We already have, for example, Duhamel Logistique, Berry Services, Gilleman and Normatrans as members of the Club.

At the same time, we are receiving a number of enrolments from new exhibitors, about 50 companies at the moment and across all sectors: logistics providers such as FDB Logistique, which specialises in e-commerce; regional operators such as Orne Développement, Midi Pyrénées Expansion, and the Agence de Développement Economique du Tarn (Tarn département Economic Development Agency); logistics real estate with Cushman & Wakefield, a world leader in the sector; rental property for shipping and forwarding agents, such as Hayat and Parkridge; and information systems and technologies with Via Michelin.

This year, the event will revolve around the theme of new logistics markets. How will this be reflected at conference level?

First of all, the Inaugural Conference will be held on Tuesday 27 March in the presence of Jacques Barrot, the European Transport Commissioner, and, for the first time, Wolfgang Tiefensee, the German Minister for Transport. It will be devoted entirely to the challenges and implications of new transport and logistics markets - e-commerce, reverse logistics, rail freight, sea transport and traceability.

These themes will subsequently be discussed in more depth during the four plenary sessions, which will cover: reverse logistics for end-of-life products and the regulatory frameworks recently adopted in this domain; new markets for rail freight; logistics as a vector for the development of e-commerce; and sea transport, with the challenges of marine motorways.

Around 15 theme-based conferences will complete this rich and diverse programme, tackling all of the major developments that the transport and logistics sector has to face on a daily basis.

One of the highlights of the event will be the awarding of the Prizes for Innovation. Has anything changed since the last SITL trade fair?

This year we will be awarding six prizes instead of the five we gave in the past. Three prizes in the Products and Services category will be awarded for innovation in the categories of Transport & Logistics Services, Logistics Information Systems, and Logistics Facilities & Sites.

Three other prizes will also be awarded, in the Trades & Professions category: the Sustainable Development Prize, in partnership with Ademe; the Human Resources Prize, sponsored by Hays and the Logistics Foundation; and, for the first time, the prize for the best innovation in the field of e-commerce logistics, in partnership with FEVAD (the federation of mail-order companies).

These six prizes will be awarded on Tuesday 27 March from 6pm onwards.

About SITL Real Time 2007

SITL Real Time 2007 will be held from 27 to 29 March 2007 at the Parc des Expositions (Hall 4) at Porte de Versailles in Paris (France). The companies attending the event will include Zebra Technologies Europe Limited, a British company specialising in traceability, and Carrierweb BV, a Dutch company in the embedded IT sector.

For further information, please go to: www.salon-sitl.com



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