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SMM '86

Ship, Machinery and Marine Technology International Trade Fair

Hamburg, West Germany September 23-27

Despite the current business cli- mate prevalent in the shipping, shipbuilding and offshore sectors, the Ship, Machinery & Marine

Technology International Trade

Fair (SMM) has strengthened its leading position again this year. To take place in Hamburg, West Ger- many, September 23-27, its success is the result of intensive sales cam- paigns and effective presentations by the Hamburg Fair organization in the U.S. and in countries of

Northern and Southern Europe.

In contrast to some events in oth- er countries, SMM'86 can point to a genuine increase in the number of exhibitors. This year more than 500 direct exhibitors from 25 countries

Photo: Congress Centrum Hamburg, site for the Ship, Machinery & Marine Technology

International Trade Fair. are expected. First-timers among the joint venture exhibits are Nor- way and Bulgaria. There will also be 12 other national cooperative stands.

Exhibitors view the success of

SMM as a direct consequence of the highly qualified and international makeup of the trade fair visitors.

More than 30,000 are expected to come to this year's SMM in Ham- burg from all over the world. For the first time, a country—the People's

Republic of China—has been chos- en as "host nation" for the trade fair. China has indicated that a high-ranking official from its ship- building sector will speak at the

SMM'86 Opening Ceremony.

Among the regular exhibitors at this biennial event are virtually all of Europe's leading shipbuilding na- tions, plus a great many important groups from overseas, including the shipbuilding industries from the

U.S., and marine equipment leaders from Japan and Korea.

This important maritime trade fair, being presented for the 12th time, is organized by Hamburg

Messe and Congress GmbH, the fair authorities, in cooperation with the

Association of German Marine En- gineers and the German Shipbuild- ing Industry Association. It is spon- sored by Germanic Lloyd, the Ma- rine Engineering Society, the Ship- yard and Offshore Specialists' Sec- tion of the German Machinery and

Plant Manufacturers' Association, and the Association of Industrial

Marine Technology.

In conjunction with SMM'86, an

International Congress on Ship

Technology will take place on Wed- nesday, September 24.

At the last SMM exhibition held in 1984, 31,114 visitors from 44 countries (including Argentina,

Australia, Brazil, China, Korea,

Singapore, the U.S., and the USSR) came to Hamburg—impressive evi- dence of the significance of this trade fair for the international ship- building industry. Some 58 percent of these visitors were either senior or middle management, and 83 per- cent said that SMM was of great importance as a market for informa- tion and placing orders.

Specialist Equipment

Shipyards and suppliers from the world's traditional shipbuilding countries are increasingly discover- ing gaps in the market for specialist vessels. This will be clearly shown by much of the equipment on dis- 16 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News