Category: Shipping

MS&D 2012 - international conference on maritime security and defence - took place in Hamburg on 4 and 5 September as part of the 25th SMM, shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology, international trade fair. Here is the final report on MS&D 2012 from the perspective of Messe Hamburg and DMI: "The integration of MS&D as a maritime security and defence conference into SMM as the world's leading trade fair for the maritime industry was the right step at the right time," said Bernd Aufderheide, CEO of Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH, drawing a positive conclusion. Even in the run-up to the conference there had been a great deal of interest from industry and international military delegations. The very well-structured range of topics, which covered technical as well as strategic, economic and political aspects, was a success factor for the tight, one-and-a-half-day conference, he said, adding that another important argument for organising MS&D together with SMM was the expansion of the nomenclature for the world's leading maritime trade fair. "By integrating MS&D, SMM has gained a new, attractive and promising area. This has already proved its worth this first time round," said Aufderheide. Heinz Schulte, Editor-in-Chief at DVV Media / Griephan, event partner together with the German Maritime Institute (DMI), agreed: "It was a great opportunity for us to go alongside the MS&D at the SMM. We should stick to this basic concept of organising the MS&D as part of the SMM. "The approximately 250...