Greece is Open for Business - Posidonia and Greek Shipping Send Confident Message to the World

posidoniaThe presence of thousands of participants from some 80 countries, the move to a state-of-the-art venue offering exhibitors excellent facilities and many opportunities to promote their business and the staging for the first time of a series of top level conferences and seminars concurrently with the exhibition, will confirm Posidonia 2012 exhibition as the most important event in the international maritime and business calendar.

This year’s Posidonia will also be good news for Greece, as it will project a positive image of Greece and send a strong message to the world at large that Greece has success stories to celebrate and the unique achievements of the Greek shipping industry on the world stage and in the field of sea transportation, i s one of them.

Global shipping is gradually overcoming the gloomy international economic outlook as the organisers of industry flagship event Posidonia 2012 have revealed growth in exhibitor numbers for the next event to take place 4-8 June 2012 in Metropolitan Expo, located by the new Athens International Airport. The projected increase is buoyed by the stronger participation of traditional shipbuilding nations and engine and equipment exporters all vying for a bigger slice of newbuilding orders placed by Greek shipowners, as well as many companies servicing this global fleet. Posidonia 2012 will not only showcase new technologies, products and services, but also provide a critical insight into the key issues and recent developments affecting world trade and sea transportation.

The newly launched Posidonia conference and seminar programme, to be hosted inside the exhibition venue, will examine important topics currently
affecting the maritime industry. Decision-makers in the fields of trade, finance, shipbuilding, environmental policy and technology will discuss and debate
strategic issues while attempting to evaluate the macroeconomic outlook for the global economy and its impact on sea trade.

The collective might of Greek shipowners, who last year invested a total of US$ 8.5 billion on newbuildings, has yet again propelled biggest exhibitor China to increase its Posidonia national pavilion size by a total of 30 per cent to 1,300 square metres in an effort to accommodate strong interest by its ambitious shipbuilding sector as it tries to attract Greek owners into the country’s yards.

For the first time Posidonia will also welcome a Norwegian national pavilion, to showcase its country’s engineering and technological capabilities. Long standing exhibitors from Japan, Korea, USA, Denmark and Holland, will all field pavilions increased by between 30 and 110 percent.