Damen Shipyards to Hold Maritime Festival
Dutch shipbuilding and engineering conglomerate Damen Shipyards Group is once again holding its one-day-only annual industry networking event at its headquarters at Gorinchem in the Netherlands.Following three successful editions as the Damen Workboat Show, this year it has been rebranded as the Damen Maritime Festival to better reflect the full Damen product range as well as the day’s lively atmosphere and will take place on Thursday 19 September.As before, the festival will give industry professionals from across Europe and beyond the opportunity to mingle with each other as well as explore in detail Damen’s current products and plans for the future.
What’s Next?
The maritime industry goes from cycle to cycle, living with and by uncertainty. You could even say that our industry embraces risk. This means that “What’s next?” is always a relevant question – and one that gets some interesting responses. During Nor-Shipping 2011, we discovered that the “what’s next” question really resonates with the industry when we used it to support the theme “Next Generation Shipping” for the event week. The standing-room only audience at the Nor-Shipping…
Oslo Maritime Week to Launch
Oslo Maritime Week, a new event established by the Norwegian maritime industry for local and international peers, takes place from May 30 – June 1, 2012. Oslo Maritime Week presents finance, law, insurance, design and other maritime services via hot-topic seminars. Social events gather all participants and encourage cross-industry networking as an integral component. Taking place every second year, Oslo Maritime Week will alternate with Nor-Shipping. As a maritime capital, Oslo is a natural location for such an event to take place. Oslo’s integrated role in the complete Norwegian maritime cluster also ensures access to key maritime hubs, such as Bergen and Ålesund. Oslo Maritime Week will help to further strengthen the links between key Norwegian and international maritime players.
Offshore Marine Support Sector Upbeat
In only its second year, the Middle East Workboats 2009 exhibition and conference concluded with a 70% increase in the number of exhibitors and a 60% increase in exhibition space compared with the previous event. “The offshore marine support industry is upbeat about the future in this region and there can be no more powerful sign of the continuing development of the sector than the participation in this show of so many regional and international players,” said Christopher Hayman…
