HAMBURG MESSE
European shipbuilding industry goes to Constantinople
to meet the new international maritime fair
- Turkey in the 7th place of the world's shipbuilding classification

DEC, 17.2008
 

- Φωτό αρχείου του Nicco Maak
 

The European shipbuilding & marine equipment industry, and also the Turkish government, look forward with great interest to the start of the new international maritime - shipbuilding trade fair “SMM Istanbul”, from 21 to 23 January, 2009, organised by Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC), also responsible for the industry’s leading fair SMM, and by the partner Goca Fuar Kongre ve Sergi Hizmetleri Ltd.Şti (Goca Exhibitions) and will be held for the first time at the centrally located Lütfi Kirdar Convention & Exhibition Centre (ICEC) on the European side of Constantinople.

It the new international fair will participate a total of 150 exhibitors from 30 nations, including global players such as Wärtsilä, Bosch Rexroth, Germanischer Lloyd, Lloyds Register, Bureau Veritas, and of course leading Turkish shipyards (all of Turkey’s top 15 shipyards), such as Selah Shipyard, Içdaş Shipyard, Tuzla Kiran Shipyard, Çiçek Shipyard, and major equipment suppliers and shipyard outfitters such as Özkan Steel, Alaybeyoğlu and the software house IFS Turkey.

• The SMM’s fair will be accompanied by a three-day conference that will cover all the subjects currently concerning the ship­building industry around the world, including various topics as ship & port security focusing on piracy and new security technologies; trends in the world shipbuilding market; ship financing and the role of Turkey; engineering subjects such as environment friendly propulsion and control technologies; new coating systems; software applications in the shipbuilding industry; the superyacht sector; and new aspects and synergies with the wind energy sector. The new trade fair will also help shipyards and suppliers to jointly exam development projects to reduce the production costs.

The Community of European Shipyards Associations (CESA) welcomes the new ship­building event at the interface between Europe and Asia. Especially as the host country Turkey has made great progress in shipbuilding, establishing itself in the Top Ten of world shipbuilding in recent years. The figures from Clarkson Research Services put the Turkish shipbuilding industry in 7^th place in the world in mid 2008, with an orderbook of 215 newbuildings corresponding to 2.3m compensated gross tons.