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NEVA 2013, which opens its doors to the global shipping community at the Lenexpo exhibition complex in St Petersburg from September 24 to 27, will showcase the significant developments in the structure and operation of Russia’s maritime industries and the nation’s growing presence on the international stage.

More than 1,200 participants from over 50 countries attended NEVA 2011, with 17,000 visitors reg-

istering for the event, and this year the number is expected to exceed 20,000 as Russian companies seek to develop links with foreign companies and investment and access to international markets.

The catalyst to this projected growth has been Russia’s long-anticipated entry into the World Trade Organisation, leading to a lowering of import and limiting of ex-port duties and a crucial opportunity for Russian business to develop links with Asia and the Pacific Rim and strengthen ties with the European Union, to whose members it currently exports Euros 200bn of goods, of which oil accounts for Euros 130bn.

Russia, in fact, is the European Union’s third biggest trading partner, with mem-ber countries exporting Euros 108bn

of goods to Russia, including Euros 7bn worth of cars and Euros 6bn of medicines.

NEVA 2013 will put the spotlight firmly on how Russia is upgrading and modernising its shipbuilding, ship equipment, ports and offshore energy industries as well as the massive inland waterways system, all of which require investment and state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology which, in many instances, are available in the global market place.

Russian companies are ready to meet these challenges and NEVA 2013 will af-ford Russian businesses and foreign com-panies alike unparalleled opportunities to develop international cooperation and partnerships to boost the implementa-tion of urgently required investment and technology.

“The NEVA 2013 message is Russia is open for business, says Roderick Keay, General Director of UK-headquartered Dolphin Ex-hibitions, the event organiser. “NEVA 2013 will build on the tremendous success of the previous exhibition and conference in 2011, focusing on the development of ship building and marine equipment, navi-gation, logistics, ports, the offshore sector and inland waterways.

“NEVA is supported by leading adminis-trations and enterprises in Russia and it provides a unique gateway to meet ship-ping and offshore energy executives from all regions of this massive country under one roof.”

Russia is open for business“ ”

RUSSIA GEARS UP FOR GLOBAL ROLE

St Petersburg, Russia, 24 - 27 September 2013NEVA 2013

NEVA 2013 is honoured to wel-come Hans Peters, former Prin-cipal, Trade and Transport, The World Bank, as Conference Se-nior Consultant and Moderator.

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INtERNAtIONAL LINKS tHE wAY FORwARdImportant Russian mariti me industry ini-ti ati ves will come under the spotlight at NEVA 2013.

The Krylov Shipbuilding Research Insti -tute has been upgraded and, as the KSRI Mariti me Centre, it can implement com-mercial programmes more eff ecti vely, with new authority to functi on on a com-mercial basis via its Ocean Engineering Division, Civil Shipbuilding.

The Administrati on Offi ce for the North-ern Sea Route was established in Mos-cow at the end of January to oversee reg-ulatory, technical and fi nancial control of shipping routes, port operati ons and the Arcti c undersea / off shore marine sector.

In another major development, the new-ly-merged Makarov Academy and State University for Waterborne Transport or-ganisati on has been made responsible for overseeing and implementi ng the major modernisati on programme for Russia’s inland waterways network and its fl eet.

President Vladimir Puti n recently called on Russian industry to boost the design and producti on of hi-tech vessels and underlined the necessity for these indus-tries to cooperate more closely with for-eign counterparts.

The president’s call will be heard at NEVA 2013 through United Shipbuilding Corpo-rati on (USC), which believes that NEVA 2013 off ers a “widely acknowledged platf orm for internati onal business co-operati on” in developing technology for extracti ng oil and gas at sea and for trans-porti ng cargoes on Northern Sea Routes.

“USC guarantees the promoti on of na-ti onal achievements in the design, pro-ducti on, supply, repair and conversion of sea and inland waterway vessels for commercial fl eet operati ons, based on the most advanced internati onal technol-ogy, and increases the competi ti veness of the shipbuilding industry and shipping as a reliable partner in global marine mar-kets,” says A.A. Diachkov, USC president.

Another NEVA 2013 supporter, the Min-istry for Industry and Trade, believes Russian shipbuilding will off er its technol-ogies “to strengthen internati onal coop-erati on and investment in shipbuilding, off shore technique producti on, technol-ogies and equipment and to increase the internati onal image of Russian shipbuild-ing and shipping as a reliable partner in global mariti me markets,”according to L.V. Strugov, Department Director.

The Ministry will also focus on the de-velopment of the Arcti c sea transport system in Russia including a nuclear ice breaking fl eet for Arcti c sea routes, in-ternati onal transit, a Russian Arcti c sea transport system, navigati on and hydro-graphic services for ship owners looking to operate via the Northern Sea Route and the transportati on of oil and gas from Arcti c deposits.

The Union of Russian Shipowners (SO-ROSS) will use NEVA 2013 as a platf orm to address global shipping and its infl u-ence on Russia and the development of the Arcti c sea transport system in Rus-sia.

SOROSS will also consider the conse-quences for shipping of Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organisati on, Rus-sian nati onal policy governing commer-cial shipping, the competi ti veness of Russian shipping, the role of Russian shipyards in developing a commercial fl eet, opening the Arcti c Shelf, building LNG and ice-strengthened vessels and drilling platf orms and addressing con-cerns over the transportati on of oil and liquefi ed natural gas.

The Associati on of Russian Sea Commer-cial Ports (ASOP) will focus on advanced port equipment and technical knowledge to develop infrastructure and superstruc-ture needed to support off shore oil and gas explorati on and will hold a seminar programme during NEVA 2013 highlight-ing Russian and other state-of-the-art port equipment, systems and technology.

Navigati on and hydrographic issues will be addressed by the Department for Naviga-ti on and Oceanography (Ministry of De-fence) with specifi c reference to creati ng technical faciliti es and equipment for high precision navigati on, digital sea maps and data bases. Training will also be covered.

Safety issues arising from programmes to develop the Arcti c and Northern Sea Route will be addressed by The Associ-ati on for Development of Sea Rescue, Safety and Diving Equipment highlighti ng plans for the constructi on and operati on of rescue vessels and fi re fi ghti ng vessels in ports and at sea.

Russian-dutch Bilateral Year 2013: the Strategy of Water transport. this one-day conference will provide a unique forum for speakers from Rus-sia and the Netherlands to debate issues and exchange views on the future of inland and coastal shipping, effi cient shipbuilding and inland waters infrastructure. there will be networking opportuniti es for ship-builders, bankers, insurers, ship owners, ship managers, lawyers, ship brokers, ship suppliers, bunker suppliers, port and shipping services pro-viders. More informati on on this ambiti ous conference and parti cipati on possibiliti es can be found on www.neva-conference.com

President Vladimir Putin has called on Russian industry to boost the design and

production of hi-tech vessels

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NEVA 2013 - WidE-REAChiNg OffiCiAL SuPPORt

• the united Shipbuilding Corporation of Russia • the government department for Shipbuilding and Marine technology • the Ministry for industry and trade of the Russian federation • the union of Russian Shipowners (SOROSS) • the union of Oil and gas Equipment Producers • the Association of Russian Sea Commercial Ports (ASOP) • the department for Navigation and Oceanography • the Russian union of industrialists and Entrepreneurs • the Association for development of Sea Rescue, Safety and diving Equipment

SHMAKOV NEw USC HEAd

Vladimir Shmakov has been appointed head of United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC). The Corporation incorporates 116 subsidiaries integrating 60 shipbuilding enterprises, design bureaux, shipyards and equipment building plants account-ing for 80% of shipbuilding industry pro-duction.

ARCtIC CHALLENGE

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) from Eu-rope to Asia shortens the distance of tra-ditional shipping links through the Suez Canal depending on destination, thereby offering the potential to generate major cost savings in fuel and reduce CO2 emis-sions and lessen the risk of piracy, accord-ing to Mikhail Belkin, assistant general manager of the Russian state-owned Ro-satomflot ice breaking fleet.

In 2008 Norway’s Tschudi Shipping Com-pany and the Norwegian Ministry of For-eign Affairs established the international and independent non-profit Centre for High North Logistics (CHNL) as the pre-

ferred knowledge network for creating efficient and sustainable logistical solu-tions in the High North through research projects between business, academic institutions, organisations and public authorities.

A CHNL workshop in Kirkenes in April 2010, under the title Opening the North Sea Route for bulk commodities, attract-ed more than 25 stakeholders from Rus-sia, Norway and elsewhere. This was the catalyst for the development of a strong partnership between Tschudi Shipping, Nordic Bulk Carriers, Prominvest, Sydva-ranger Gruve and Rosatomflot to initiate the first truly international transit ship-ment through the Northern Sea Route – a

non-Russian cargo car-ried on a non-Russian flag ship between two non-Russian ports.

In September that year the Tschudi Group initiated the first non-Russian commer-cial shipment through the Arctic to China using the 1995-built, 43,732dwt Hong Kong

flag bulker Nordic Barents to transport 40,000 tons of iron ore from Kirkenes to China.

The vessel left on September 4 and ar-rived on September 23, completing the voyage at an average speed of 12 knots.

Tschudi, believes specialised Arctic ship-ping will in future be characterised by tankers, dry cargo, gas carriers and off-shore vessels for Russian and internation-al companies, feeder vessels for Russian river deltas and project cargo.

The successful voyage paved the way for the first LNG tanker to sail eastwards from Northern Europe to Japan via the Arctic Ocean at the end of 2012 when Russia’s Gazprom chartered in the 2007-built, 84,682dwt Marshall Islands flag Ob River for the trip.

Sailing time was cut from 40 to 22 days and the voyage proved a major fillip to Gazprom and other Russian entities who had been hoping to sell LNG to the Unit-ed States but have since switched their focus to Japan and China in the face of stiff competition from the emerging shale gas industry in the US.

NEw CHAMBER OF SHIPPING SEtS tHE AGENdARussia’s determination to put its mari-time industries on an equal footing with international competitors has stepped up to a new level with the eagerly-anticipat-ed establishment of a Russian Chamber of Shipping.

The decision to establish the Russian Chamber of Shipping, representing 21 million tonnes, creating a single body to represent the entire shipping industry abroad, much along the lines of the UK Chamber of Shipping, was backed at gov-ernment level by the Ministry of Transport

and the Marine Board and supported by a significant majority of ship owners.

“There has been a long-felt need to es-tablish the Chamber and to bring the Russian shipping community to a new level,” says Alexander Balyberdin, Execu-tive Secretary of the Marine Board.

Union of Russian Shipowners’ President Michael Romanovsky (pictured, right) will be Vice President of the Chamber and to-tal tonnage in the Chamber amounts to some 21 million tons, according to Alexey

Klavain, Chairman of the Association of Russian Shipping Companies (Ocean and Inland).

In an early initia-tive, the Cham-ber has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Danish Shipowners’ As-sociation (Dan-marks Rederi-forening).

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NEVA AGENdA: tHREE dAY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME24 SEPtEMBER 2013

Plenary holland/Russian Conference and round table for cooperation in the shipbuilding and maritime industries, devoted to the official Year of Holland in Russia with Maritime by Holland and Makarov State University for Sea and River Transport.

Session for Marine Education of the Makarov State University for Sea and River Transport.

union of Russian Ship Owners (SOROSS) Conference.

2nd Marine Business forum germany - Russia.

25 SEPtEMBER 2013

Plenary session of the 12th NEVA international Conference Perspectives of the development of Russian Commercial Shipbuilding and Marine Offshore technology, ship equipment and shiprepair, in association with Krylov State Shipbuilding Scientific Centre.

innovation Welding technologies for Shipbuilding, Marine Technology Production and On-shore Civil Engineering Infrastructure 2013

conference in association with Welding Alliance of St Petersburg and North-West of Russia and Union of Welders of Germany (DVS).

Presentation and Reception by the federal State Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.

Brotherhood traditions of the Arctic Allied Convoys 1941-1945 as a basis for the modern International cooperation in Arctic conference.

26 SEPtEMBER 2013

Committee for Port Equipment and Mechanisation of the Association of Sea Commercial Ports (ASOP) Conference.

innovation Welding technologies for Shipbuilding, Marine Technology Production and On-shore Civil Engineering Infrastructure 2013 conference in association with Welding.

Alliance of St Petersburg and NorthWest of Russia and Union of Welders of Germany (DVS).

Perspectives of the development of Russian Commercial Shipbuilding and Marine Offshore technology. the 12th NEVA Conference in association with

Krylov State Shipbuilding Scientific Centre including:

w Technology for Arctic applications.

w Environmental protection during operations on the Continental Shelf and development of offshore mineral resources.

w Round table on the Russian Federation fishing industry after accession to the World Trade Organisation.

w Inland and river-sea ships.

w Manpower requirements in view of future developments in the industry.

w Shipbuilding and shiprepair technology for vessels intended for development of hydrocarbon fields on the Russian Arctic Shelf.

w High speed passenger fleet.

w Technical methods and means of high precision navigational and hydrographic support for safe marine activity and equipment and technology for search and rescue at sea.

finland-Russia Seminar and Business-to-Business meetings, Finnish Marine Industries.

Session for Maritime infrastructure development by Russia-ASEAN Business.

Further information about NEVA 2013 and previous events can be found on the website www.transtec-neva.comTo receive your official invitation click here.

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St Petersburg, Russia, 24 - 27 September 2013

NEVA 2013

NEw GLOBAL ExHIBItORS

NEVA 2013 welcomes two new national pavilions from South Korea (KOTRA) and the UK Shipbuilders & Ship Repairers Association) along with, for the first time, industry groups from Italy and individual companies from India.

The Marine Offshore Centre at the exhibition will provide information on de-velopment of the offshore support fleet. The Centre will be coordinated by the HOTCHYA Design Bureau in Russia with participation from all sectors of Russian activity and foreign counterparts. Caterpillar Power USA will join the group to explore possibilities for its new generation of hybrid units for offshore applica-tion.