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search specialists and innovation consultants. Representatives from

Hamburg's higher education in- stitutions, private and publicly owned research establishments, and government officials will lead the exchange. This forum is in- tended to benefit medium-size and smaller concerns.

Among the topics included in the information exchange are sub- jects of interest to both trades- men and industry as well as port services. Themes include weather forecasting, river sedimentation, packing technology, underwater welding, seawater desalination, and wind energy systems. One session will deal with how river silt and sediment can construc- tively be utilized. In addition, exhibitors will be given the op- portunity to report on their ex- perience in port development schemes and demonstrate new innovations in equipment on dis- play.

The exhibition itself will be the largest display of information and products of interest to sea- ports ever assembled. Ten halls covering more than 320,000 square feet will house the exhi- bition, with the neighboring Con- gress Center serving as location of the conference and seminars.

Special display facilities will include open-air exhibition areas with railroad tracks for demon- stration of shunting locomotives, special cars, cranes, and other rail-mounted equipment and roll- ing stock.

Organized by the Hamburg

Exhibition and Congress Center and sponsored by Hamburg's Sen- ate, Portex '81 will also give par- ticipants the opportunity to study port facilities in action. The Port of Hamburg, Germany's largest and one of the world's most de- veloped, will serve as a working laboratory to demonstrate special facilities for handling bulk cargo.

Grain silos, timber products ter- minals, tank facilities for liquid cargo, and container terminals will be in operation.

Among the countries registered to participate in Portex '81 are the United Kingdom, Germany,

France, Belgium, Poland, Czech- oslavakia, Hungary, Italy, Nor- way, Sweden, Japan, the United

States, East Germany, and Swit- zerland.

PORTS AND TRADE

CONGRESS

In conjunction with the Portex '81 Exhibition, the World Ports and World Trade Congress will be presenting modern know-how on cargo handling, port operation and organization, as well as the planning, design, and construc- tion of seaports. The subjects of the congress and the choice of speakers should insure a top- quality congress and seminar pro- gram, as experts from all over the world are expected to attend.

International experts of high caliber will participate in the in- troductory program, which deals with the common problems faced by world ports and their general technological development. Prof.

Dr. Kuiler from Erasmus Uni- versity in Rotterdam is to speak on "The Development of World

Transport at the End of the

Twentieth Century," and Georg

Koopmann, head of the research group International Trade Links at the HWWA Institute of Eco- nomic Research in Hamburg, has decided to talk on "The Develop- ment of International Maritime

Trade and Its Influence on World

Shipbuilding."

James B. Newman, ports com- missioner at the World Bank in

Washington, D.C., will speak on "Port Development and Problems in Third World Countries as Seen by an International Development

Aid Organization," a topic that should attract considerable in- terest. Ignacio Echeverria, de- partmental head in the Chilean

Ministry of Transport, will ex- amine the problems confronting ports in Latin America, while

Tchouta Massa, head of the

Transport Department of the

Economic Commission for Africa (Addis Ababa), will speak on the development of African ports and their problems.

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