BALTIC FUTURE 2008

BALTIC FUTURE 2008

Event Dates

Nov. 18 - 20, 2008   in  Rostock (Germany - Europe)    HanseMesse Rostock 

3rd Future Conference of the Maritime Industry of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

The 3rd Future Conference of the Maritime Industry of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will be held along with the trade fair Baltic Future on November 19, 2008. The conference is organized by the Department of Economic Affairs of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Maritime Board of the Rostock Chamber of Commerce. The proposed topics of the conference are a perfect supplement to the core themes of the trade fair: Maritime logistics, shipbuilding- and supplier industry as well as offshore wind power.

Rostock Business will commit itself even stronger to offshore wind power. The company has already confirmed both: Cooperation with the Offshore-workshop of the Maritime Future Conference and a presentation at the trade show. Four lectures and a panel discussion will deal with the extension of medium-sized maritime industries in order to come to a linked-up production within complex superstructures for offshore wind power. Topics of high interest such as specific manpower training in the specialized sectors of this branch of industry will also be discussed.

Workshop Science-Port Rostock

The initiative Science-Port Rostock intends to hold a half day workshop on the project Science-Port Rostock – Testing Environment for the Development of Maritime GNSS-based Operations. The initiative of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to launch the project Science-Port Rostock dates back to 2006.

It aims at establishing and operating a testing environment for the development of maritime operations within the application range of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), specifically the European satellite system Galileo. The project is also designed as a field trial of prototypical applications of the Galileo navigation system within the port of Rostock in order to improve maritime operation technologies for an efficient and safety-regulated control of ship traffic and cargo transport.

Geographic catchment area

Baltic Sea abutter countries of Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden as well as Great Britain and the western North Sea region.

Exhibitor profile

BalticFuture aims principally at medium-sized maritime supply industry, logistic companies und suppliers for offshore enterprises.

Professional visitor profile

BalticFuture aims exclusively at experts, decision makers, sales managers and purchasers from the following areas:

shipyards, shipping and marine companies

enterprises concerned with offshore wind energy generation

ship owners

builders of boats for the open sea and inland waters

science, consultancy and institutions

Your advantages as an exhibitor

technical concentration on the maritime supply industry

geographic focus on the Baltic Sea region

target-oriented canvassing of professional visitors by intense PR work

specific framework programme for exhibitors and visitors

Economic region Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is Germany's gate to the Baltic north. For years, the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has been making every effort to convert its seaports into modern and efficient places of transhipment and traffic junctions. For this purpose, the best possible sea and land traffic links are just as much necessary as are modern terminals, well developed berths for big tankers and efficient ferry installations. The demand for modern high-tech equipment for ships, port facilities and power generation is unbroken.

BalticFuture is the future-oriented trade fair for the maritime supply industry and the presentation platform for innovations and high technology in the maritime sector. BalticFuture aims at exhibitors and visitors from the entire Baltic region.

The Baltic Sea region

With the eastward expansion of the EU, the Baltic Sea became the inland sea of the European Community, and the flow of goods shipped on it from West to East is constantly growing. The economic region of the Baltic Sea, sized 2.4 million sq. km and home of approx. 100 million people, is one of the fastest growing areas of the EU. In particular the exchange of goods with Russia is increasingly carried out on the Baltic Sea. The importance of the international logistic networks both for goods and passenger transport in the Baltic Sea region should not be underestimated.

Contact

Project Manager

Frank Baumann

Fon: ++49 (0)30 - 22 90 80 42

Fax: ++49 (0)30 - 22 90 80 49