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The International Association "Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation" (CCTT) is a non-commercial transport association with an open-ended duration, registered in the Main trade register of St. Gallen (Switzerland) on the 21st of February, 1997. The CCTT was founded by the Ministry of Railway Communication of the Russian Federation (since 2003 — after the restructuring — JSC “Russian Railways”), DB AG (Deutsche Bahn), GETO (Association of European Transsiberian Operators), and KIFFA (Korean International Freight Forwarders Association). Presently the CCTT consists of 114 members from 22 countries, including major railways and shipping companies, operators and forwarders, ports and stevedoring companies, state organizations, administrations and municipalities, telecom and marketing companies, as well as security services and media. The main purposes of the Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation are: - attracting transit and foreign trade cargo to the Transsiberian route (TSR); - coordinating activities of companies that participate in international cargo transportation on the TSR — to ensure high-quality delivery of goods and development of economic relations between countries of South-East Asia, Far and Middle East, Central Asia, and Europe based on using the infrastructure of Russian railways. According to the Statutes of the CCTT, Chairman of the Council on a permanent basis is President of the JSC “Russian Railways”. Deputy Chairmen are presidents of freight forwarder associations that are members of the CCTT. 
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