The next SINAVAL international shipping, maritime, port and fishing industry fair is to be held on April 12-14, 2011. The promotional team are already engaged in an ambitious domestic and international campaign to reinforce the event’s presence on various strategic markets.

In all those markets, agreements are being drawn up with top-level business groups. For instance the organisers are working with the National Union of the Shipbuilding, Repair and Offshore Industry in Brazil, a key country for shipbuilding, and with the national shipping industry associations of Norway and China to co-ordinate efforts to attract exhibitors. An additional commercial staff member has also been drafted in to support efforts in Galicia and Portugal.

The first contacts have also been established with national organisations to arrange technical seminars concerned with the fishing industry, and a high-profile international conference is being designed along the lines of those held at previous editions of the event.

Presentations of SINAVAL 2011 have already taken place in Oslo, Lorient, Rotterdam, Glasgow and Ancona, and at domestic level in Burela, Bermeo, Vigo, Madrid and Barcelona. The event is also to be presented this year in Hamburg and Paris.

Communications Department, July 2010