NEVA - Newsletter - June 2013

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

RUSSIA GEARS UP FOR GLOBAL ROLE

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.

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ore than 1,200 participants from over 50 countries attended NEVA 2011, with 17,000 visitors registering 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 export 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 member 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 stateof-the-art infrastructure and technology which, in many instances, are available in the global market place.

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Russia is open for business

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Russian companies are ready to meet these challenges and NEVA 2013 will afford Russian businesses and foreign companies alike unparalleled opportunities to develop international cooperation and partnerships to boost the implementation of urgently required investment and technology.

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“The NEVA 2013 message is Russia is open for business, says Roderick Keay, General Director of UK-headquartered Dolphin Exhibitions, 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, navigation, logistics, ports, the offshore sector and inland waterways.

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

NEVA 2013 is honoured to welcome Hans Peters, former Principal, Trade and Transport, The World Bank, as Conference Senior Consultant and Moderator.

INtERNAtIONAL LINKS tHE wAY FORwARd Important Russian maritime industry initiatives will come under the spotlight at NEVA 2013.

The Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute has been upgraded and, as the KSRI Maritime Centre, it can implement commercial programmes more effectively, with new authority to function on a commercial basis via its Ocean Engineering Division, Civil Shipbuilding.

The Administration Office for the Northern Sea Route was established in Moscow at the end of January to oversee regulatory, technical and financial control of shipping routes, port operations and the Arctic undersea / offshore marine sector.

President Vladimir Putin has called on Russian industry to boost the design and production of hi-tech vessels In another major development, the newly-merged Makarov Academy and State University for Waterborne Transport organisation has been made responsible for overseeing and implementing the major modernisation programme for Russia’s inland waterways network and its fleet.

President Vladimir Putin recently called on Russian industry to boost the design and production of hi-tech vessels and underlined the necessity for these industries to cooperate more closely with foreign counterparts.

The president’s call will be heard at NEVA 2013 through United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), which believes that NEVA 2013 offers a “widely acknowledged platform for international business cooperation” in developing technology for extracting oil and gas at sea and for transporting cargoes on Northern Sea Routes.

“USC guarantees the promotion of national achievements in the design, production, supply, repair and conversion of sea and inland waterway vessels for commercial fleet operations, based on the most advanced international technology, and increases the competitiveness of the shipbuilding industry and shipping as a reliable partner in global marine markets,” says A.A. Diachkov, USC president.

Another NEVA 2013 supporter, the Ministry for Industry and Trade, believes Russian shipbuilding will offer its technologies “to strengthen international cooperation and investment in shipbuilding, offshore technique production, technologies and equipment and to increase the international image of Russian shipbuilding and shipping as a reliable partner in global maritime markets,”according to L.V. Strugov, Department Director.

The Ministry will also focus on the development of the Arctic sea transport system in Russia including a nuclear ice breaking fleet for Arctic sea routes, international transit, a Russian Arctic sea transport system, navigation and hydrographic services for ship owners looking to operate via the Northern Sea Route and the transportation of oil and gas from Arctic deposits.

The Union of Russian Shipowners (SOROSS) will use NEVA 2013 as a platform to address global shipping and its influence on Russia and the development of the Arctic sea transport system in Russia.

The Association of Russian Sea Commercial Ports (ASOP) will focus on advanced port equipment and technical knowledge to develop infrastructure and superstructure needed to support offshore oil and gas exploration and will hold a seminar programme during NEVA 2013 highlighting Russian and other state-of-the-art port equipment, systems and technology.

Navigation and hydrographic issues will be addressed by the Department for Navigation and Oceanography (Ministry of Defence) with specific reference to creating technical facilities and equipment for high precision navigation, digital sea maps and data bases. Training will also be covered.

Safety issues arising from programmes to develop the Arctic and Northern Sea Route will be addressed by The Association for Development of Sea Rescue, Safety and Diving Equipment highlighting plans for the construction and operation of rescue vessels and fire fighting vessels in ports and at sea.

SOROSS will also consider the consequences for shipping of Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organisation, Russian national policy governing commercial shipping, the competitiveness of Russian shipping, the role of Russian shipyards in developing a commercial fleet, opening the Arctic Shelf, building LNG and ice-strengthened vessels and drilling platforms and addressing concerns over the transportation of oil and liquefied natural gas.

Russian-dutch Bilateral Year 2013: the Strategy of Water transport. this one-day conference will provide a unique forum for speakers from Russia and the Netherlands to debate issues and exchange views on the future of inland and coastal shipping, efficient shipbuilding and inland waters infrastructure. there will be networking opportunities for shipbuilders, bankers, insurers, ship owners, ship managers, lawyers, ship brokers, ship suppliers, bunker suppliers, port and shipping services providers. More information on this ambitious conference and participation possibilities can be found on www.neva-conference.com NEVA newsletter w Summer 2013

new chamber of shipping sets the agenda Russia’s determination to put its maritime industries on an equal footing with international competitors has stepped up to a new level with the eagerly-anticipated 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 government level by the Ministry of Transport

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 accounting for 80% of shipbuilding industry production.

Arctic challenge The Northern Sea Route (NSR) from Europe to Asia shortens the distance of traditional shipping links through the Suez Canal depending on destination, thereby offering the potential to generate major cost savings in fuel and reduce CO2 emissions and lessen the risk of piracy, according to Mikhail Belkin, assistant general manager of the Russian state-owned Rosatomflot ice breaking fleet.

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

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

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

Union of Russian Shipowners’ President Michael Romanovsky (pictured, right) will be Vice President of the Chamber and total 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 initiative, the Chamber has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Danish Shipowners’ Association (Danmarks Rederiforening).

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 ferred knowledge network for creating efficient and sustainable logistical solutions 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, attracted more than 25 stakeholders from Russia, Norway and elsewhere. This was the catalyst for the development of a strong partnership between Tschudi Shipping, Nordic Bulk Carriers, Prominvest, Sydvaranger Gruve and Rosatomflot to initiate the first truly international transit shipment through the Northern Sea Route – a non-Russian cargo carried on a non-Russian flag ship between two non-Russian ports.

In September that year the Tschudi Group initiated the first non-Russian commercial shipment through the Arctic to China using the 1995-built, 43,732dwt Hong Kong NEVA newsletter w Summer 2013

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

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

Tschudi, believes specialised Arctic shipping will in future be characterised by tankers, dry cargo, gas carriers and offshore vessels for Russian and international 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 United 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.

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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 development 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 application.

NEVA AGENDA: THREE DAY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 24 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 NorthWest of Russia and Union of Welders of Germany (DVS).

Krylov State Shipbuilding Scientific Centre including:

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

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

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

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

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

w Technology for Arctic applications.

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 Businessto-Business meetings, Finnish Marine Industries.

Session for Maritime Infrastructure Development by Russia-ASEAN Business.

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

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Contact details: Roderick Keay, General Director, Exhibitions, NEVADolphin newsletter w Summer +44 20131449 741801, info@dolphin-exhibitions.com Media inquiries: Christopher Mayer, JLA Media Ltd, +44 208 865 3194, chris.mayer@j-l-a.com