The worldwide networking of economic relations continues to grow with enormous dynamism. The security of shipping routes and ports is essential for this global development, which has made shipbuilding and shipping key industries in global logistics.
SMM, the world’s leading maritime industry fair, is focusing increasingly on these areas and working in close cooperation with MS&D, international conference on maritime security and defence hamburg – a unique forum for this subject, to be held on the occasion of SMM at the Hamburg Fair site on 4 and 5 September 2012. It is hosted by Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH (HMC) with partners DVV Media / Griephan and the German Maritime Institute (DMI). They believe that SMM is the right platform for MS&D, bringing together international experts from the top levels of government and public authorities, maritime companies, academia and international institutions and from the navies of a range of different countries. Bernd Aufderheide, President and CEO of HMC , feels that MS&D is an excellent fit to the wide ranging subjects of the 25th shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology, international trade fair hamburg: “Modern, innovative technologies for shipbuilding and offshore technology, as presented at SMM, are key to the security of international shipping and offshore activities in a changing maritime environment.”