Türkiye’s premium shipbuilding and subsidiary industry exhibition; Expomaritt Exposhipping İstanbul will be held for the 17th time between 2-5 May 2023 at Viaport Marina, İstanbul.

Being the centre of finance and industry of Türkiye, İstanbul can be defined as a business hub for world markets thus remains its global importance for centuries. One of these important events is Türkiye's premium shipbuilding and subsidiary industry exhibition Expomaritt Exposhipping İstanbul, which is a global event gathering thousands of people from over seventy countries in İstanbul for an unforgettable week. Expomaritt is a place for potential great collaborations and hundreds of opportunities. The event is being organized by the world's #1 exhibition organizer Informa Markets bi-annually on behalf of the Chamber of Shipping-Türkiye. 

Informa Markets is also the organizer of world-leading maritime exhibitions and conferences including Seatrade Cruise Global, Sea Asia, and Seatrade Maritime Middle East, Seatrade Offshore Marine & Workboats Middle East. 

“New Date, New Team, New Concept, New Ambition, New Goals!”
Event Director Ms Hatice Dinçer stated that; “With our new date, new concept and new team motto; - The Global Maritime Industry is Heading to İstanbul - we are ready to host the industry professionals in the real shipbuilding and subindustry hub of the region; İstanbul! This year, we aim to be more international than the event by welcoming more than 700 exhibiting brands from over 35 different countries and 9.000 sector professionals from 65 countries. We are so proud to contribute to our country, economy and the industry by organizing this important event.”

“More International Than Ever”
Expomaritt Exposhipping Istanbul offers its participants the opportunity to introduce their products and services to the global maritime industry, as well as to conduct competitor analysis, establish new business contacts and learn about the latest developments in the industry. Event Manager Mr Semih Etyemez stated that; “Taking place at the shipbuilding hub of the region; İstanbul, the 17th International Maritime Exhibition will provide you with an excellent chance to grow your business in this region. Exhibitors are mostly expecting to be from Germany, the UK, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain.” 

“A Generous Investment in Digital Products is the Key to a Success of the Event”
The fair, which stand sales have started, has already attracted the attention of all the important actors of the sector. Ms Aslı Altınok Erdal, Marketing Manager of the fair, stated that; “The 17th edition of the event will come with its strength in digital platforms. What we offer to for our visitors and exhibitors is two new platforms; one is called – Expomaritt Connect the other one is the – Digital Hub -. Another signature development we created is a specific Mobile App for the event. We also created a new internal brand called; Expomaritt Newsletter. The monthly e-bulletin will bring together important developments and news from the featured brands. Along with the new investments in digital products, our main communication theme will be sustainability. You will see meaningful projects, partners and valuable Marin Talk speakers specifically around this topic. We are extremely excited to offer our new projects to the sector.”

The Strength of Turkish Shipbuilding Industry
Today, the Turkish Shipbuilding Industry, with an annual construction capacity of 4.65 million tons, has signed many “mosts” and “first”s and continues to do so, such as the world's largest live fish transport vessel, the first LNG-powered tugboat, the first hybrid ferry, the world's first battery and LNG-powered fishing vessel, the first energy conversion vessels, the largest like a sailing yacht. In addition, Türkiye has become one of the few countries in the world to build their own military ships and is among the top three in the world in yacht building. 

With its high-quality workforce and production capacity meeting the European Standards and quality, the Turkish Shipbuilding Industry has the capacity to compete with the leading countries in maritime industry, particularly in new ship building, ship maintenance-repair and defense industry projects. 

Türkiye’s streghts in the industry are geographical location between Europe and Asia, have enough high skilled labour force including well trained naval architects, have a world-wide recognition in small tonnage ships (small chemical tankers, tugs, mega yachts), have shipyards flexibly responding to market conditions (shift to other ship types and reorientation to ship repair & conversion). Since there is an increasing demand for greener ships and luxury yachts worldwide, the opportunities for Turkish Shipbuilding Industry is endless.

To learn more about what is new at Expomaritt Exposhipping İstanbul 2023, visit the official website www.expomaritt.com 
 

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