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Visitors encouraged to attend informative product presentation seminars

Baird Maritime

Baird Events' third instalment of China Maritime promises to bring visitors a challenging and informative programme besides its range of high quality exhibitors.

China Maritime will be held from March 16 to 18 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).

Associated event, Marine Money Conference, held on March 16 from 8.15am to 5.30pm at the Renaissance Harbour View Hotel, next door to the HKCEC, brings visitors added benefit and value. The programme is titled, "The Third Annual Greater China Shipping Finance, Strategy and Investment Forum: When Opportunity Knocks".  To apply for the event, please visit the Marine Money website, www.marinemoney.com

As always, the China Maritime exhibition will be running a full programme of seminars and workshops to bring visitors up to date with the latest in shipbuilding, developments and technology.

China Maritime 2010 kicks off on the morning of March 16 at 9.40am.

On Wednesday March 17, the Hong Kong Shipowners Association will be hosting a forum titled "Adapting to a different future" from 8.30am to 12.50pm. This by-invitation-only event will be held at Room S427 of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.  

China Maritime will offer a series of product presentation seminars on all three days of the show. All product presentations are free and visitors are welcome to attend as many seminars as they wish.

 "Visitors are strongly encouraged to take advantage of our series of free product presentation seminars," said Kishore Navani, Event Manager of China Maritime. "They offer a unique way of engaging with a company's new products and services. Attending one of these sessions will give visitors and in-depth understanding of the topic they're interested in. There's a good variety of topics this year and visitors will not be disappointed."

The programme is as follows:

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Time: 11am-12pm
Company: Medscreen-Concateno
Speakers: Ms Monica Nessen Pixley, Regional Manager Asia Pacific / Mr Graham Birch, Head of Maritime
Topic: The latest on legally defensible urine testing and benzine testing of seafarers

Time: 12pm-1pm
Company: Harwood Marine
Speaker: Mr Yoshiaki Takahashi
Topic: A 20 percent fuel-saving hull-ultrafine microbubble frictional drag reduction

Time: 2pm-3pm
Company: Germanischer Lloyd
Speaker: Mr Martin T. Chen, Business Development Manager, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Topic: Hull maintenance based on a 3-D model

Time: 3pm-4pm
Company: Dometic Hong Kong
Speaker 1: Mr Ben Haynes, International Technical Sales Manager, Dometic USA
Topic: Dometic air-con and sanitation (for the commercial vessel industry)

Speaker 2: Mr Alton Wong, Senior Sales Manager, Dometic Group Asia Pacific
Topic: WAECO refrigeration

Wednesday March 17, 2010

Time: 3pm-4pm
Company: Brigantine Group
Speaker: Dr David Schaus
Topic: Oil sludge disposal and safe room

Time: 4pm-5pm
Company: Maris Asia Pacific
Speaker: Mr Bhupesh Ghandi
Topic: Paperless navigation, the sooner the better

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Time: 10am-11am
Company: HK International Coastal Cleanup
Speaker: Ms Lisa Christensen, Managing Director, Ecovision Asia
Topic: A rising tide of ocean debris and what we can do

Time: 11am-1pm
Company: Designing Hong Kong
Speaker: Mr Paul Zimmerman
Topic: Leisure marine use development in Hong Kong: A home for super yachts?

Time: 2pm-5.30pm
Company: Wärtsilä China
Speaker 1: Mr James Reynolds, Technical Services, Wärtsilä Switzerland
Topic: NOx Emissions and Tier 1 solutions, low sulphur fuel

Speaker 2: Mr Andrew Stump, Sales Director, Wärtsilä China
Topic: Flex 35 / 40 updates, Wärtsilä factories in China and new licenses

Speaker 3: Mr Wim Knoester, Deputy General Manager, Wärtsilä China
Topic: Dual fuel propulsion systems

Speaker 4: Mr Guido Pfister, Vice President, Services, Wärtsilä China
Topic: Wärtsilä China Services

China Maritime 2010 offers visitors a first class opportunity to meet local and international exhibitors alike to get more information on their products or services. This exciting event attracts large numbers of high quality vessel owners, operators, builders, designers, government personnel and maritime equipment suppliers for all types of ships and work boats.

For further information please contact:

Kishore Navani
Baird Events
PH: +61 3 9645 0411
FX: +61 3 9645 0475
Email: marinfo@baird.com.au
Web: www.bairdmaritime.com