As an integral part of UAE Maritime Week 2018, Seatrade Maritime Middle East (SMME) will gather leading regional and international shipping and maritime industry decision manufacturers and stakeholders at the Dubai World Trade Centre to allow them to network, do business, strengthen and nurture new partnerships, while dealing with industry problems within relevant and comprehensive meeting sessions. The three-day exhibition and meeting, the biggest event of its kind in the region, will be arranged in order to help develop a robust, vibrant, sustainable, and safe UAE maritime community in alignment with the government's initiative to keep the country's condition as one of the most established maritime hubs in the region.

To be held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, UAE, from October 29 to 31, 2018, Seatrade Maritime Middle East will certainly come at a time when the residential business delivery and maritime industry is expected to enter a new stage of development particularly as the Arab state has now signed up with the Classification B membership of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council. Safeguarding the Category B membership is seen to pave the way for the UAE to strengthen its duty in shaping the future of the global maritime system.

Chris Hayman, Chairman of Seatrade, said: "2018 is going to be a considerable year for the global maritime industry, specifically in the Middle East, where investments in the region's ports and logistics field and smart innovation technologies are in full speed. These vivid investment tasks are especially noticeable in the UAE which, after winning the Group B subscription of IMO council, is now on its means to developing itself as a multi-dimensional global maritime center. We completely mean to contribute to this vital journey within the platform of this occasion. This year's version of the world-class maritime convention will certainly accumulate all the important strands of the complex and innovative maritime community, with ship owners and drivers, ports, financiers, and other maritime professionals anticipated to proactively participate in the discussion on how to more drive the industry onward."

The gathering will certainly bring together countless C-Suite stakeholders from regional and global buyers, freight proprietors, shipowners, and ship supervisors to meet and connect with the world's leading vendors covering supply, construction and upkeep of vessels. It will certainly also organize workshops, panel conversations, and roundtables, to cite a couple of, throughout the three-day event. This year's theme focuses on independent delivery and automation, gases of the future, digital and online technologies, and ecological obstacles within the shipping industry.

Meanwhile, other than SMME, the UAE Maritime Week will certainly include various other prominent occasions such as the UAE Maritime Future Leaders Seminar, which will certainly focus on the major role of innovation in Dubai as a completely integrated global worldwide maritime center; and the Dubai Maritime Summit, which will aid enhance Dubai's ability to host significant worldwide maritime events and conferences.

Nawfal Al Jourani, Chief Officer, Dubai Maritime Cluster Office, said: "The UAE Maritime Week 2018 will bring together multiple stakeholders to work together and add to the progression of maritime industry and, by extension, their very own companies. As part of the UAE Maritime Week, SMME will certainly contribute immensely to this memorable event by offering the best platform to network and promote the individuals' product or services to the best target market possible. We waiting to one more year of effective occasion designed to offer the needs of the regional and worldwide shipping and maritime communities of the future."

The UAE Maritime Week 2018 will run from October 28 to November 1, 2018, in Dubai. Greater than 350 exhibitors from leading international maritime companies and over 8,000 site visitors, consisting of prominent local, regional, and global maritime experts and professionals, are estimated to take part in the Seatrade Maritime Middle East and associated occasions.