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Global Trade Hub at London International Shipping Week

9 - 11 September 2019

Global Maritime Technology Xchange (G-MTX) at LISW 2019

Tuesday 10 September, 10:00 - 14:30

G-MTX 19 provides your company with a unique platform to sell your offer to decision-makers from a range of international fleet owners and operators. G-MTX 19 will offer an audience of international buyers a comprehensive overview of the key areas of UK capability which can help the global maritime community improve efficiency, reduce costs and meet environmental standards. See below for more details on participating buyers.

Delegates will also have the opportunity to meet with DIT Trade staff from Brazil, China, South Korea and Greece. See below for more details.

Meet with UK Export Finance (UKEF) to discuss short and long-term trade finance options and learn how your overseas customers can access UKEF support to purchase your products.

For further information, please contact: john.strang@trade.gov.uk

Time	Activity
10:00 - 10:30	Registration & Coffee
10:30 - 11:20	UK Maritime Excellence Session 1:
	Top UK marine engineering technology companies will explain how they are driving the industry in key areas such as cost reduction and enviromental standards. Opening and welcome by Carl Hunter, DIT Export Champion and CEO of Coltraco Speakers: Noel Tomlinson - BMT, Andrew McKeran - Lloyd's Register, David Barrow - Windship, and Stuart Stoter - UK Export Finance: products to support UK suppliers.
11:20 - 11:30	BREAK

11:30 - 12:20	UK Maritime Excellence Session 2:
	Top UK marine engineering technology companies will explain how they are driving the industry in key areas such as cost reduction and enviromental standards. Speakers: Stephen Potts - Silverstream, Neil Young - Babcock International, Neil Tinmouth - Sea-Kit, Simon Harris - Houlder, and Stuart Stoter - UK Export Finance: products to support international buyers.
12:20 - 12:30	Q&A Session: Facilitated by John Strang

12:30 - 14:30	1-2-1 Business Meetings:
	Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings will take place for the remainder of the event and this is your opportunity to arrange meetings and explore areas of future cooperation with international buyers who are interested in your products.
14:30	Close

Key International Attendees

China Ship Development and Design Centre (CSDDC, Subsidiary of CSIC)

China Classification Society (CCS)

AVIC Weihai Shipyard Co., Ltd. (China)

COSCO (China)

Samsung Heavy Industries UK

Hyundai Heavy Industries UK

China Classification Society

Dismeter (Brazil)

1-2-1 Business Meetings

Please see below, details of International buyer's available for 1-2-1 Business Meetings between 12:30 - 14:30 on Tuesday 10 September:

Once registered, you can book your 1-2-1 meetings here.

Company	Market	Areas of Interest	Company Bio	Delegate	Title
China Classification Society (CCS)		CS can assist UK marine engineering companies to better understand the regulatory requirements of doing business in China.	CThe Chinese organisation responsible for certification of marine products for the Chinese market.	Chen Wang	Director, China Classification Society London Maritime Centre
China Ship Development and Design Centre (CSDDC, Subsidiary of CSIC)	China	Deep sea equipment, deep sea mining system, electric propulsion system, intelligent control system, ocean unmanned technology, surface unmanned vessels.	CSDDC is specialized in the overall research, design and development of ships, especially the overall system engineering of ships. In the past 30 years, they have delivered a series of Chinese government law enforcement ships, such as maritime surveillance, fishery administration, maritime police, maritime affairs, and customs, forming a complete series of 30 to 150m classes and displacement ranging from 35 tons to 5500 tons.	Li Weilin Wang Zhiguo Wang Shuowei Ma Hongstao Zhao Deliang	Deputy Head / Senior Engineer Director / Senior Engineer Deputy Director / Senior Engineer Deputy Director / Senior Engineer Deputy Director / Senior Engineer
AVIC Weihai Shipyard Co., Ltd.	China	Innovative technical solutions for Ro-Ro, Ropax/ passenger ship, chemical tankers etc, including components, system, design etc.	AVIC Weihai Shipyard Co., Ltd. was built in 1951. It’s acquired by China Merchant Industry Holdings Group in 2019. The number of staff in the company is more than 4,500 and there are over 500 technicians. The land area of the company covers 1,400,000 square meters, and the sea area covers 1,650,000 square meters. The wharf shoreline is as long as 1,844 meters. The production facilities include a slipway of 50,000DWT and two 100,000DWT drydocks, which enable the shipbuilding of all types of vessels under 100,000DWT.Currently AVIC Weihai has eight passenger roro ships on its orderbook.	Huang Lei	CEO
Samsung Heavy Industries UK	South Korea		Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered many of the world's first and largest shipbuilding and offshore EPC projects. Most notably, in high/tech high/value areas such as drill ship, LNG carrier and FPSOs. The company developed and built the first Arctic Shuttle-Tanker and LNG-FPSOs in the world, and has pioneered new market developments by developing innovative products such as LNG-FSRU, and various ships for polar applications, Arctic Ice-Breaker Container Ships. In the offshore facilities sector, the company successfully delivered the world’s largest semi-submerged offshore drilling platform.	Sungsu Ahn	Associate (Senior administrative officer)
Hyundai Heavy Industries UK	South Korea
DIT Brazil	Brazil		The DIT strategy focus for the year will be the new 176 government supported built programme including fluvial pushers, support vessels and passenger ferry construction, container ships, oil tankers and Aframax vessels. There are strong matches between local need (propulsion, navigation, electronics, DP, safety systems) and UK strengths, and we are now engaging with the yards in Brazil and UK suppliers, together with UK Export Finance	Luma Dias	Assistant Sector Manager, Marine, DIT Rio
DIT China	China		We have had success with our focus on the Chinese Cruise liner sector and have developed strong relationships with many of the key yards involved in this area. In 2019/20 we are working to engage with the cruise owners and operators (incl. tourism companies) as well as a wider range of non-cruise vessels types – such as LNG and research vessels.	Lani Liang	Senior Trade & Investment Officer, DIT Guangzhou
DIT China	China		We have had success with our focus on the Chinese Cruise liner sector and have developed strong relationships with many of the key yards involved in this area. In 2019/20 we are working to engage with the cruise owners and operators (incl. tourism companies) as well as a wider range of non-cruise vessels types – such as LNG and research vessels.	Tingyi Lu	Maritime Lead, DIT Shanghai
DIT South Korea	South Korea		The improving situation for commercial shipping projects means we are working to re-engage with key projects in this sector - focusing on areas where the UK may have a comparative advantage such as smart shipping, environmental / green shipping equipment and equipment for LNG vessels. Supporting UK equipment into offshore plant / topside projects (FPSOs, FLNG etc.) will continue to be an important strand of our activity in 2019/20.	Hyekyung Suh	Maritime Lead, DIT Seoul
DIT Greece	Greece		Greece will continue to be a focus to access key owners and operators for abroad range of services, equipment and engineering.	Marina Arvanitakis	Senior Trade Advisor, DIT Athans
Society of Maritime Industries	Global		SMI is the voice of the UK’s maritime engineering and business sector promoting and supporting companies which design, build, refit and modernise ships, and supply equipment and services for all types of commercial and naval ships, ports and terminals infrastructure, digital technology, maritime defence and security, marine science and technology, maritime autonomous systems and marine renewable energy.	Tom Chant	Director
UKEF	Global		The UKEF mission is to ensure that no viable UK export fails for lack of finance or insurance, while operating at no net cost to the taxpayer. UKEF work with 70 private credit insurers and lenders to help UK companies access export finance (the particular class of loans, insurance policies or bank guarantees that enable international trade to take place as easily and securely as possible). UKEF can support exports for any size of company and across all sectors, from capital goods to services and intangibles such as intellectual property.