The Middle East’s most comprehensive maritime event

The Gulf Maritime exhibition over the last five editions, has come to be considered as a credible and highly effective maritime trade platform that is capable of meeting the complete sourcing requirements of the commercial, government, leisure, and military maritime industry in the Middle East.

The Gulf Maritime exhibition has sailed a long way since it first began in 2003. Today, the exhibition attracts some of the world’s leading names from the global maritime industry as exhibitors, who consider the event to be an ideal market entry vehicle to the region as well as a means to stay ahead in a highly competitive industry environment.

The event also enables participating maritime companies to reach out to an extremely broad category of sectors within the industry. Gulf Maritime is the only exhibition in the region that is depended upon by the commercial, government, leisure, as well as the military maritime industry for its sourcing requirements.

Gulf Maritime exhibition has one of the highest exhibitor retention rate among maritime events in the region. During each of the past five editions, over 60% of the space had been sold six months in advance of the events.

Where: UAE

When: April 21-23, 2008

Why arrange your appointments all over the world when we can bring them all together for you in one place?

By matching key buyers and sellers for a series of one-to-one business meetings, the Hosted Buyers Programme 2009 offers an unrivalled forum for big industry names to meet and do business together.

Take the opportunity to forge business relations that can only be achieved from individual face to face meetings with key decision makers.

Your meetings schedules are designed to achieve the following:

• enrich existing or new business relations
• meet corporate demands
• enable huge savings on time, human resources and money expended on global travel.

Our programme offers buyers the opportunity to compete with their peers for the best deal from suppliers, and sellers the opportunity to better understand and deliver to the needs of new and existing clients.

The 3rd Gastech LNG World Shipping Hosted Buyers Programme takes place on Sunday 24 May 2009, the day before the opening of Gastech 2009 in Abu Dhabi. Places are limited so register your interest now.

Can you afford to miss this event?
From past attendees feedback:
• 100% said the event met their objectives
• 91% intend to return to the event in 2009
• 91% considered the event to be excellent value for money

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Expansion remains the order of the day as far as the shipping, ports, and logistics sectors in the UAE are concerned, according to the latest report issued by Business Monitor International.

Exhibitor Testimonials:

“International Freight Week has brought together all of the industry leaders under one roof – the show has certainly attracted the right target audience, and everyone here is from the sector. We’ve had a lot of interest from shippers who are looking for logistics solutions as well as people who are interested in opening offices in Abu Dhabi and are evaluating the region’s logistics capabilities.”
Des Vertannes, Executive Vice President – Etihad Crystal Cargo

“It’s important for us to have a major presence at important trade events like International Freight Week, that’s why we have the biggest stand at the show. We’re the market leader in the materials handling sector and have a reputation for excellence in customer service – International Freight Week gives us the opportunity to communicate these key messages whilst underpinning and strengthening our position.”
Ziad Dheni, Branch Manager-Abu Dhabi, Al Bahar (Caterpillar)

“International Freight Week has been a very successful event for us. We chose the exhibition as the platform to launch a number of innovative new online initiatives that streamline the customs process, all of which have attracted great interest. Our stand has been very busy throughout the show and we’ve welcomed lots of quality visitors. We have also met many companies that are interested in working with us in terms of warehousing, etc.”
Hameeda Suleiman Al Jabri, Head of Customs Policies and Procedures, Department of Finance, General Administration of Customs, Abu Dhabi

“International Freight Week has really added value to our business. The visitors have been of a very high quality and we made two significant deals on the first day. The organisation has been first-class, and the exhibition gave us the opportunity to have a presence alongside all of the major players from the industry.”
Spokesman for Abu Dhabi Terminals, UAE

website: http://www.internationalfreightweek.com/

Middle East Ocean Science Technology & Expo

The MEOST 2008 team thanks all visitors, partners and supporters for a very successful show.
Dates and venue for MEOST 2009 will be announced shortly.

When: January 21-23, 2008

Where: Abu Dhabi, Uae

www.meost.com

The Middle East is ideally placed as a key logistics hub. Investment projects are underway to deliver efficient transport and logistics infrastructures. Recent reports suggest that the Middle East will experience significant development throughout the transport and logistics industry in the immediate term.

International Freight Week is the region’s only event covering the entire transport and logistics industry. Product areas of interest include:

• Road Haulage
• Warehousing
• Rail Freight
• Air Cargo
• Containers, Tanks & Reefers
• Ports Management
• Shipping
• Logistics Services
• RFID & Technology
• Materials Handling

Where: Abu Dhabi, United Arab

When: November 23-25, 2008

Where: Dubai, UAE

When: December 14-16, 2008

Where: Dubai, UAE

When: November 25-26, 2008

Where: Sharjah, UAE

When: TBA

Middle East Ocean Science & Technology Expo

Dates and venue for MEOST 2009 will be announced shortly.