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  • TRANSTEC 2014 – The Big Ports and Shipping Event for Russia

    Dates:   2014 October 1 - 2014 October 3

    The Organizers of the NEVA Exhibition and Conference Programme are pleased to announce the outline Programme and Contents for TRANSTEC 2014, The Big Ports and Shipping Event for Russia, 1-3 October 2014 at the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex in central St Petersburg.

    As TRANSTEC 2014 prepares to open its doors to the International maritime community, the Russian Association of Sea Ports (ASOP) President Mr. O. A. Terekov highlights the Event’s international B2B significance with the following message: “You will make direct personal contacts to combine our joint efforts and to display the most modern systems, technologies and equipment to meet the future demands for efficient and safe transportation. There are important opportunities to be explored and I look forward to receiving your kind response to our invitation”, said Mr. Terekov.

    Key topics of the ROSMORPORT FSUE “Strategy for Development of Marine Ports of Russia to 2030” will also richly support the Port Programme, focusing on:

    •          Combining the interests of Ports, Shipping and Shippers
    •          Port Users perspectives on national and global shipping
    •          Development of the Cruise and Ferry Market for the Sea and Inland Waterways of Russia

    The Shipping Programme at TRANSTEC 2014 also promises to provide an excellent platform for debate, supported by the following topics:

    •          Shipping for the development of the RF Inland Waterway Systems 
    •          Shipping Logistics to develop the Northern Sea Route as Transit Route and Destination Route
    •          Increased cooperation with foreign partners, manufacturers and service

    For all queries including Exhibition space, sponsorship, press/media and bi-lateral seminar opportunities, please contact Dolphin Exhibitions UK directly.

    We look forward to welcoming you in St Petersburg at TRANSTEC 2014 in St Petersburg!

    MAJOR SUPPORTERS AND PREVIOUS EXHIBITORS:

    -  International Association of ports and harbors-IAPH (Tokyo)

    - European Sea Ports Organization (ESPO, Brussels)

    - Maritime Collegium of the Government of the Russian Federation

    - Ministry of Transport of Russia

    - Sate Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport of Russia - Rosmorrechflot

    -  Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs – RSPP (uniting major producers, exporters –cargo owners The Union has concluded agreements on cooperation with over 70 similar business community organizations in the USA, Germany, Italy, Israel, France, China, Japan, and other countries. The Russian-American business dialogue was developed with the RSPP and the US Chamber of Commerce being directly involved, and cooperation with EU business groups is underway.)

    -  Maritime Council of the Government of St. Petersburg

    -  ROSMORPORT State Enterprise

    - Association of Sea Commercial Ports-ASOP

    -  Transport Union of Russia

    -  Union “National Chamber of Shipping” of Russia

    - Coordination Council for Trans-Siberian Transportation ( Switzerland, including JSC Russian Railways, Deutsche Bahn (DB AG), Association of European Trans-Siberian Operators (GETO), and Korean International Freight Forwarders Association (KIFFA). Presently the CCTT has 105 member societies from 23 countries)

    -  LenmorNIIproject Civil Engineering Institute

    - Central Research Institute for Sea Fleet-CMIIMF

    - Krylov State Shipbuilding Research Center

    - Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

    - GNINGI Navigation and Oceanography Research Institute

     - Admiral Makarov State University for Sea and Inland Waterways Transport 

    TOPICS OF EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE BY INDUSTRY

    THE COMPETITION FOR PORT BUSINESS

    - The conditions to guarantee competitiveness for sea commercial ports: efficiency for port infrastructure, safety and security of ports operation, improvement of port management and technologies for reduction of ports expenses

    - Creation and operation of port technological platforms, port clusters and port-based industry zones

    - Creation of port infrastructure and superstructure for service for high-tonnage vessels

    - Specialization of ports, creation of “dry ports” and “advanced ports”  areas, including railway access knots and logistic cargo handling complexes

    - Possibilities to create free economic zones

    - Operation and creation of oil ports and LNG ports

    - Cargo basis prognostics and estimation technologies to upgrade the efficiency of port operations

    - The competitiveness between the sea, river, and dry ports – creating the positive conditions to attract serious investments in the development of ports infrastructure and superstructure:

    •          Attracting investments for port infrastructure and superstructure
    •          Improving port Management
    •          Increasing the efficiency of Port Authorities: their operation and the management of Customs and Border-Crossing Control
    •          Increasing the speed and efficiency to process cargoes
    •          Cutting the red tape: the challenge to improve effective port legislation
    •          The role of state control of port activity- price regulation of port tariffs including the application of anti-monopoly and anti-trust legislation

    COMBINING THE INTERESTS OF PORTS, SHIPPING AND SHIPPERS

    Facing the current state and perspectives of national and global shipping – the Port Users

    •          International and domestic shipping-their influence and demands on the global transport market
    •          National shipping policies: supporting or impeding commercial shipping?
    •          Finding the balance between global and national flags for commercial shipping to maximize the cargo volumes of domestic trades, import-export trades and transit operations
    •          Formation of the clusters, alliances and JV between ports and shipping lines to improve attractiveness and service for existing directions of cargo flows transportation
    •          The shipping lines possibilities as global inter-modal  transport and logistic companies, arranging transportation using all kinds of transport
    •          Trade-industrial shipping: shipping lines operations and fleet, belonging to huge production Corporations-cargo owners
    •          Container and LNG shipping as natural priorities of development
    •          The fleet and port temporary alliances creation and operation to guarantee eternal transport infrastructure for the 3-rd countries
    •          Creating positive conditions to establish the balanced development of commercial shipping
    •          Opportunities for the unified development of inland, sea-river and short sea shipping to advance their integration with global shipping
    •          Shipping and Shippers requirements for improved inland waterways infrastructure and superstructure

    THE CRUISE MARKET AND RUSSIA - EXPANDING THE HORIZONS

    Current State and Perspectives for the Development of the Cruise and Ferry Market for the Sea and Inland Waterways of Russia

    •          “World with No Limits” - a basis for successful development of sea and cruise tourism. Mediterranean, Black Sea, Baltic, North-Sea and Arctic cruise markets and their cooperation via Russia
    •          Current trends in the world cruise industry – where does Russia stand.
    •          The opportunities to increase cruise passengers flows as an influence on the development of Russian Maritime Policy
    •          The Priorities for construction and reconstruction of passenger sea and inland waterways ports
    •          Ports of call improvement for infrastructure and superstructure for better tourist and passenger services, ship agents and port supply services for passenger ship and passengers
    •          The great opportunities to develop the cruise and passenger traffic flows on the inland waterways
    •          The next generation of sea-going and inland waterways cruise, passenger ships and ferries – meeting the demands of tourists, business and the economy
    •          Tourist and travel companies on cruise market, cruise operators and  cruise charter companies

    GREATER ECONOMY, GREATER EFFICIENCY–THE NEXT GENERATION OF SHIPS

    Meeting the demands to lower costs, improve safety and respect the environment

    •          Concepts and projects for the new generation of the sea and inland waterway State Service Fleet – ships to service the ports, fairways and inland waterways:
    •          Nuclear and conventional sea-going ice-breakers
    • floating energy stations
    •          Port dry and floating docks and repair facilities
    •          Port ice-breakers for sea and river port operations
    •          Rescue and fire-fighting vessels
    •          Tugs and navigation/buoy service ships
    •          Coast-guard and ecology monitoring vessels
    •          Supply and bunkering vessels
    •          Pollution-elimination vessels
    •          Maritime Clusters and other methods to improve development of ship building at national shipyards and equipment manufacturers

    FACING THE ARCTIC

    Providing the Port Network and Shipping Routes in Arctic conditions 

    •          Nuclear ice-breaking fleet operations as a basic fundamental for Arctic shipping operations
    •          Arctic shipping as a principal foundation for cross-trading and transit transportation
    •          Perspectives for the development of a national and global Arctic sea transport system
    •          Navigation and Hydrographic services for the Arctic and Northern Sea Route
    •          Ports and Shipping working together to ensure efficient and safe exploration, extraction and transportation of hydrocarbons from the Arctic and Northern deposits
    •          Development of North and Arctic ports and on-shore  maritime logistic bases to support shipping , offshore fleet  operations, underwater pipelines construction and operations

    WATCHING THE ENVIRONMENT, WATCHING THE NEIGHBOURS, WATCHING THE CLIMATE

    Ecology and Safety in Ports and Shipping

    •          Ecological requirements to improve ports and ship equipment
    •          The target to create the modern ecology-friendly fleet
    •          Effective systems to process and recycle rubbish, waste and spillage in ports
    •          Staff training and education to improve ecology-friendly port operations
    •          The Ports and their neighbors – City Ports and Green-Field Ports

    ACCELERATE PORT EQUIPMENT MODERNISATION AND TECHNOLOGY

    •          The Green Light for Innovations in Port Equipment and Technologies
    •          Energy saving equipment and technologies
    •          Innovations in port reconstruction and construction of new ports facilities
    •          Global experience and technologies in development of port equipment
    •          New management and technical systems for port operation

    THE PORT CYBER WORLD

    Information and IT-facilities in Ports and Shipping

    •          Global information systems to improve ports and shipping operations
    •          Integration of local and Regional information systems with the global system of world ocean monitoring (ЕXIMO
    •          Safety and security of global and local maritime IT-resource
    •          Intellectual support systems to improve decision-making in ports and shipping operations
    •          Technologies and issues to create the global transport and shipping virtual space
    •          Global and Regional Ports services  electronic  trade (Port e-trade)

    PORTS AND INLAND WATERWAYS CIVIL ENGINEERING

    Port professional design and planning as an instrument of port efficiency and low-cost operation

    •          Engineering research  as a part of the marketing for port construction  investment project
    •          Engineering research to plan the port and hydro technical infrastructure development (port business-plan of future activates, cargo-flow prognostics, calculation and estimation of possible operation efficiency and return of investments for port infrastructure and superstructure creation, port property , machinery, equipment cost  evaluation and prognostics)
    •          Projects to upgrade and build-up ports and hydrotechnical infrastructure (port general planning, port complexes for different types of cargo design, design for port main and auxiliary infrastructure, design for passenger ports, yachts marines, design of engineering network)
    •          Dredging and creation of artificial land and territories for ports
    •          Advance methods and practice for port and hydro technical infrastructure design( CAD-CAM system, 3D modelling, models imitation and practical testing)
    •          Architecture  and design for port infrastructure, superstructure 

      THE SHIPPING PROGRAMME
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    • Main features include:
    • DEVELOPMENTS, STRUCTURE, AIMS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION CHAMBER OF SHIPPING
    • SHIPPING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RF INLAND WATERWAY SYSTEMS
    • SHIPPING LOGISTICS FOR DEVELOPING THE SHELF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITH PARTICIPATION BY THE MAJOR OIL AND GAS INDUSTRIES, ND OTHER MINERAL DEVELOPERS
    • SHIPPING LOGISTICS TO DEVELOP THE NORTHERN SEA ROUTE AS TRANSIT ROUTE AND DESTINATION ROUTE
    • THE CRUISE INDUSTRY DEVELOPED TO LINK THE MEDITERRANEAN WITH THE BALTIC SEA - IN COOPERATION WITH THE POSIDONIA SEA TOURISM EVENT, GREECE
    • THE NEW GENERATION OF SERVICE AND SUPPORT VESSELS
    • INCREASED COOPERATION WITH FOREIGN PARTNERS, MANUFACTURERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS

     TRANSTEC 2014 SERVICES INCLUDE:

    Sponsorship Opportunities

    Press Support

    Exhibition Space and Stands

    Seminar and Private Bi-lateral Business-to-Business meetings

    The programme will be held again at the Lenexpo Exhibition complex in central St Petersburg

    The programme is fully supported by the UK and Russian Organizers of the NEVA Exhibition and Conferences

    Сontact details:

    Matthew M. White
    General Director, Dolphin Exhibitions
    Phone:    44 1449 741801
    E-mail:     info@dolphin-exhibitions.com
    Website: www.TRANSTEC-neva.com