During March, 1947, meetings of the Movements Conference (ECIMOT) and the monthly Bid-Acceptance Meeting (BIDAC) were organized by the European Central Inland Transport Organization, and attended by representatives from a number of European countries and the four occupation zones of Germany and Austria. Major issues presented for discussion included detailed planning of international traffic for the month of April, and contemplated measures to meet certain difficulties, particularly with regard to the shortage of locomotives, wagons and fuel. Plans were facilitated by agreement of the USSR to allow transit through the Soviet Zone of Germany of 90 trains of ore and general freight destined for Czechoslovakia.