ITF welcomes Airbus to its Corporate Partnership Board

The International Transport Forum (ITF) has welcomed Airbus as the newest member to join the Corporate Partnership Board. The ITF will work with Airbus and the other partner companies on topics including decarbonising transport, innovation, urban air mobility, diversity and inclusion.

The ITF is an intergovernmental organisation with 60 member countries that facilitates global dialogue for better transport. It acts as a think tank for member governments and organises an annual summit of transport ministers. The Corporate Partnership Board is the ITF’s platform for engaging with the private sector and enriching global transport policy discussion with a business perspective.

Young Tae Kim, Secretary-General of the ITF, said:

“We are delighted to welcome Airbus as a new member of our Corporate Partnership Board. As a major player in aviation, Airbus is ideally placed to contribute to work on a broad range of topics of mutual interest, including cleaner aviation and new types of manned and unmanned aircraft.”

Julie Kitcher, Executive Vice President Communications and Corporate Affairs, Airbus, added:

“We are proud to become a member of the ITF’s Corporate Partnership Board. This is a great opportunity to work with a wide-range of stakeholders, from across the transport sector, on long-term initiatives. Together we can address these global challenges more effectively and contribute to a more sustainable future.”

The current members of the ITF Corporate Partnership Board are: AB InBev, Airbus, Alstom, Aramco, Bird, Bosch, Cruise, ExxonMobil, Grin Scooters, Iberdrola, Incheon International Airport, Kakaomobility, Kapsch TrafficCom, Kyyti, Latvian Railways, Michelin, NXP, Penta Security, PTV Group, RATP Group, Siemens, SNCF, SPEA Engineering, Total, Toyota, Uber, Valeo, Volvo Cars, Volvo Group and Waymo.

More information about the ITF Corporate Partnership Board, including recent work on new mobility, autonomous driving, blockchain, data-driven transport policy, gender, decarbonising transport is available at www.itf-oecd.org/CPB.

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