SMM Istanbul picking up speed

Good response to new shipbuilding fair in Turkish metropolis shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology fair in Istanbul from 21 to 23 January 2009.

The new shipbuilding fair SMM Istanbul has already made quite a splash in the international shipbuilding and equipment supply industries. As Peter Hoggett, Sales Manager Lincoln Diesels Spares Ltd., remarks, “both exhibitors and visitors to SMM Hamburg will acknowledge the ‘SMM’ brand name as the maritime industry leader. We are convinced that the organization’s past and proven professionalism will be transferred to this new and exciting event and the SMM Istanbul will be a triumph!” Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC) and the local partner Goca Fuar Kongre ve Sergi Hizmetleri Ltd.Þti (Goca Exhibitions) will organize this new shipbuilding event for the first time from 21 to 23 January 2009, at the centrally located fair site Lütfi Kirdar Convention & Exhibition Centre (ICEC), on the European side of Istanbul. The companies registered and prospects are mostly also participants in the world’s premier shipbuilding fair SMM in Hamburg in September 2008, and expect the same high level of professionalism and service at the new “SMM” branded maritime trade fair in Istanbul that they know from the Hamburg event. The new SMM Istanbul is very well accepted by the shipbuilding industry in Turkey. The Hamburg event includes exhibits from this bridging region between Europe and the Near East, on about 1000 square metres of exhibition space, half of these in the Turkish pavilion. That is the largest Turkish contingent so far at the world’s leading industry fair SMM in Hamburg. It shows how short the distance has become between Hamburg and Istanbul. The SMM Istanbul will make the ICEC a magnet for the maritime industries of the whole region from 21 to 23 January 2009. The Istanbul event, with about one third international exhibitors, will display the whole range of maritime products, technologies and processes, all intelligently structured in the way that is familiar to SMM visitors. Istanbul also brings theory and practice close together, as in Hamburg.

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