NAVIGATE 2020

NaviGate is an international fair for professionals, organised at the Turku Fair and Congress Center (Finland) from 22nd to 23rd January 2020. The last event in May 2018 brought together around 200 companies showcasing their expertise. The expo attracted 1271 visitors and totally almost 2500 professionals met face to face.

NaviGate – where the marine industry, shipping companies and maritime logistics meet

The Finnish maritime industry is founded on world-class expertise and innovations. The event is an important meeting place that offers participants the opportunity to network and create new contacts and reinforce existing ones. The programme will feature themes that are currently the industry’s hottest topics. In the fair halls and conference rooms, NaviGate will introduce visitors the topics
of the year 2020:

Digitalization
Green shipping and marine industry
Maritime logistics
Future of knowledge and know-how, including The International Inttelligence Hunt Student Final

SeaFocus and Navigate 2020

SeaFocus and Navigate 2020 have formed an Associate Partnership in order to co-create an attractive, substance rich and high quality conference event as one of the highlights of the Navigate Maritime Trade Fair in Turku January 22-23.1.2020. The conference in 2020 will at the same time be the Finals of the Intelligence Hunt 6 project, which will focus on the future talents and knowhow which is needed in the maritime industry.

The collaboration between Navigate 2020 and SeaFocus is very active and fruitful, since the first idea meeting December the 31^st 2018. From the means of traditional trade fair planning the established partnership collaboration is extremely innovative and modern and goes deeper than just planning a trade fair. Together these organisations want to raise international discussion on the importance of maritime education. As a first concrete means, Navigate has assigned a student team to the Intelligence Hunt 5 to work on a very important issue of how do the European maritime studies and education programmes in different countries and universities match the next 10 years recruitment needs of the maritime industry.

The Finnish Maritime Cluster

The Finnish maritime cluster consists of some 3,000 companies, 50,000 employees and EUR 12.7 billion in net sales. The maritime cluster operates in several market areas, mainly in six market segments, which are cargo traffic, cruise traffic, car ferry and ro-ro traffic, offshore production of oil and gas, offshore production of renewable energy and public demand. In the future, special focal areas could be, for example, Arctic know-how, battery technology, hybrid energy solutions and digitalization. Finland’s maritime cluster operates and competes in the global markets. Come network with some world-class experts!

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