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After an unusually warm and sunny summer holiday season, members of the Hydrographic Society, Russia met again from 26th to 29th September at the Saint Petersburg exhibition complex ‘Lenexpo’ where the eighth international shipping, shipbuilding, offshore energy, ports and oceanography exhibition ‘Neva 2005’ took place. Just to remind everyone: the Neva is the name of river on which Saint Petersburg stands.
The Exhibition formed the framework for the 8th International Conference ‘Russian shipbuilding and shipping, port activities, ocean and offshore developments’. The plenary session topic of the conference was ‘Maritime industries and shipping: problems and prospects’. There were three technical sessions:
- Session A: Development of shipbuilding, ocean engineering and shipping
- Session B: History, present condition and twenty-first-century prospects for navigation and oceanography
- Session C: Safety factors in shipping and maritime industries.
Scientists and experts from Russia, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Moldova, Norway, Ukraine and the USA submitted more than fifty reports.
The work of Session B represented the greatest interest for hydrographers. The chairman of this session was Rear-admiral S. Alekseev and fifteen reports had been submitted. These came from scientists and experts from Russia, Poland, Greece and Moldova and included HSR members S. Alekseev, N. Neronov, A. Dobrotvorsky, S. Barinov, A. Oparin, K. Stavrov, S. Druzhevsky and A. Abramov.
The exhibition included products in the field of ocean study and safety of navigation manufactured and presented by Russian firms Transas, Promelectronica, Chart-Pilot, Morintech, Geomatica, Navi-Dals, C-Map (Russia), ‘Navigator devices’, ‘Sea navigating devices’ and others. As in previous years, many known foreign companies participated. Great interest was generated among hydrographers by devices shown by Reson which allow determination of change of depth to within several millimetres.
According to the experts, ideas presented at the conference and devices demonstrated at the exhibition will promote the creation of new technologies to carry out research of the world’s oceans, and to meet the growing requirements of hydrography.
Some companies this year even offered visitors a buffet table!
The Ninth Exhibition Neva 2007 will take place in two years.
Contact
Hydrographic Society Russia (HSR)
Att. Viktor Rybine
Kozhevennaja linija 41
Saint-Petersburg 199106
Russia
Tel/Fax: +7 812 350 5026
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