India is hosting the 3rd BRICS Transport Ministers’ Meeting in Nagpur on 11–12 July 2026 under its BRICS Chairship 2026; the Senior Officials’ meeting began on 9 July 2026.
Meeting snapshot
- Dates & venue: 11–12 July 2026, Nagpur, Maharashtra; Senior Officials’ meeting from 9 July 2026.
- Host & organiser: India as BRICS Chair 2026; organised by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
- Sequence: Third BRICS Transport Ministers’ Meeting; follows Transport Working Group meetings hosted earlier by Russia and Brazil.
- Theme: “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability (BRICS)”; linked to India’s Viksit Bharat 2047 vision.
Key agenda items
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): Development, deployment and supply-chain considerations for aviation decarbonisation.
- Decarbonisation: Policies and technologies for reducing transport-sector greenhouse gas emissions.
- Multi-modal transport: Integration of road, rail, air and waterways to improve freight connectivity.
- Urban mobility & circularity: Infrastructure planning, public transport and lifecycle approaches for transport assets.
- AI-based technologies: Adoption for traffic management, predictive maintenance and logistics optimisation.
BRICS membership & linkages
- Expanded BRICS (2026): Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa; new members include Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE.
IASPOINT Booster Facts
- Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993: Governs carriage of goods by more than one mode under a single contract in India.
- Multimodal transport (term): Single contract carriage using two or more modes of transport from origin to destination.
- SAF (definition): Aviation fuels produced from sustainable feedstocks/processes as alternatives to conventional jet fuel, intended to reduce lifecycle GHG emissions.