Navigate presents marine industry’s hottest topics

 

Navigate 2020 gathers together the marine industry, shipping companies and maritime logistics 

Navigate, Nordic Maritime Expo – on January 22nd to 23rd 2020  – is an important meeting place that offers participants the opportunity to network, create new contacts and reinforce existing ones. NaviGate is a fair organised by Turku Fair and Congress Centre Ltd., Finland.
 
Navigate 2020 will bring together over 200 companies showcasing their expertise. This is the chance to meet representatives from companies like Meyer Turku Oy, Stevena, Port of Naantali ESL Shipping and many others.
 
The program consists of themes like digitalization, green shipping and marine industry, future of knowledge and know-how, without forgetting the exciting Intelligence Hunt 2020 student competition final. 
 
SeaFocus is a business platform with modern and dynamic approach. It works with top-level decision makers and experts, and has its focus on bringing the most actual issues of global maritime business under discussion. The aim is also to make maritime logistics and shipbuilding industry attractive to the next generations and help them to find their place in maritime industry. SeaFocus concepts serving the maritime industry are SeaFocus Annual Executive Meeting (#SFAEM) and Intelligence Hunt company and student competition.
 
Intelligence Hunt project brings together both the maritime supply chain related business and the industry’s potential future workforce – students.  Talented students and professional mentors with industry background are connected, whereafter they start to work on real business case assignments. The competition ends with the Intelligence Hunt Finals, which take place January 22nd, 2020 in Turku, Finland. The Finals is the main conference of the Navigate 2020 Maritime Trade Fair. The programme of the Finals consists of student teams preseting their solutions, Case Company’s representative’s presentations as well as presentations of high level international inspiring speakers and experienced moderators in a dynamic manner.
 
Jury Members are Harilaos N. Psaraftis, Professor, Technical University of Denmark (GR), Sari Turkkila, General Manager Shipbrokers, Finland (FI) and Poul Woodall, Director, Environment & Sustainability, DFDS A/S, Denmark (DK).
 
The moderators are:  Frank Kho, Container Logistics & Terminal Industry, Senior Advisor, Kho Management BV, Rotterdam, Netherlands (HK), Dr. Rolf Neise, Supply Chain Management, Senior Consultant, HPMlog, Project & Management Consultants GmbH, Hamburg, Germany (DE), Johanna Fräki, Renewable Energy Innovations Director, Wärtsilä Helsinki, Finland (FI). Chairman of the Jury is Ulla Keino, Commercial Director, Ahlers Trade Facilitation Business Unit Trade Facilitation and After Sales Support, international responsibility, Russia (FI).
 
Read more about the contest: https://www.seafocus.fi/
 
Watch the list of exhibitors: https://www.turunmessukeskus.fi/en/event-exhibitors/navigate-exhibitors/