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2010 WORLD YEARBOOK PREVIEW OF SMM 2010 • THE WORLD’S LARGEST COMMERICAL MARINE EVENT

The SMM international trade fair for shipbuilding, machinery and marine tech- nology will take place in Hamburg, Ger- many, on 7-10 September. This year much focus will be on environment- friendly technologies and products. The supporting program for SMM 2010 will for the first time this year include the

Global Maritime Environmental Con- gress (gmec), and the Offshore Dia- logue, which will also look into maritime technologies for offshore mining and wind farms. The semi-annual mega-size event is now arranged for the 27th time by Hamburg Messe und Congress

GmbH, owned by the City of Hamburg.

In 2008, SMM attracted 53,000 visitors from over the world. "We expect the same number this year," Peter Bergleiter,

Project Director at Hamburg Messe, told

Maritime Reporter. There will be some 2000 exhibitors from some 60 countries, exhibiting in the eleven permanent halls and some outside areas of the exhibition, in downtown Hamburg. "In 2008, we used for the first time the whole 90,000 sq.m. (967,000 sq.ft) trade fair area for

SMM. The area cannot be extended fur- ther," Bergleiter said.

The number of national pavilions at

SMM has increased to some 30. A joint

US and Canada Pavillion will again this year be set up for some twenty-four com- panies and the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and in all at SMM, more than fifty com- panies plus a number of agent and dis- tributor representatives for North

American products.

Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Secretary-

General of the IMO is to be the main speaker at the opening of SMM 2010 and the gmec environmental congress on Sep- tember 6th, with Germany's Chancellor

Angela Merkel acing as patron. Gmec is to be held during the first two days of the trade fair. David Dingle, Chairman of the

European Cruise Council and CEO of

Carnival UK, is to open the congress, which will gather representatives from the shipping, shipbuilding and port sec- tors as well as from the IMO, European

Commission and related authorities worldwide. The panels of the congress are to be headed, apart from Dingle, by

Hermann J. Klein, ISACS Chairman and

Member of Germanischer Lloyd's Board,

Tom Broadley, Managing Director at

Lloyd's Register of Shipping and

Emanuele Grimaldi, CEO at Grimaldi

Group. Chairmen at gmec are Micky Ari- son, Chairman and CEO of the Carnival

Group, Spyros Polemis, Chairman of the

International Chamber of Shipping and

Corrado Antonini, chairman of Fin- cantieri. Gmec 2010 is to bring together the stakeholder to identify the status quo and to show ways to move forward in global environmental protection.

Another new event is the Offshore

Dialogue, a two-day workshop to be arranged on September 8th and 9th, with lecturers of international standing from the industry, institutions and asso- ciations. Participants are expected from the shipping and marine equipment in- dustry, oil and gas and also wind energy sector, as well as from shipping compa- nies and research institutes. According to figures by Douglas-Westwood Ltd, $167 billion is to be invested in only the deep- water sector between 2010 and 2014, and increase of 37% from the previous five year period. The investments in the off- shore wind energy sector is estimated at $30 billion in Europe alone, by 2030, and $2 billion just in 2010, according to Tren- dresearch GmbH. John Westwood, Chair- man of Douglas-Westwood Ltd is to open the conference. The Oil & Gas Dialogue will look into the market potential and current and future requirements for spe- cial-purpose ships for the offshore indus- try.

The Deep Sea Mining Dialogue will focus on the resources and technologies in this sector, and the Offshore WindEn- ergy Dialogue will look at the markets and technologies for special-purpose ves- sels for installation and maintenance.

The International Ship Finance Forum is to be arranged, already for the third time, on September 6th. The theme this year is "The Future of Ship Finance -

Crises and Chances". With lecturers from the maritime sector and the financial world the Forum will cover subjects like winners and losers after the financial cri- sis, the new conditions and long-term ef-

At SMM 2010 ‘Green’ Technologies Center Stage

Last month MR’s Henrik Segercrantz traveled to Hamburg for an exclusive preview of the SMM 2010 exhibition.

From left: James M. Hunn, Martin Stopford, Lars Gorvell-Dahll and Bernd

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Hamburg Messe in Germany will once again host the world’s largest commer- cial marine event, including more than 2,000 exhibitors and 53,000 visitors.