Brazil and Costa Rica have joined the International Transport Forum (ITF) as the organisation’s 65th and 66th member countries. The ITF’s highest statutory body, the Council of Ministers of Transport, voted to admit both Latin American nations on 25 May 2023 at its meeting in Leipzig, Germany. Brazil’s Minister of Transport, Mr Renan Filho, and Costa Rica’s Vice-Minister for Transport and Public Works, Mr Efraím Zeledón Leiva, were in attendance. (....)