International Dimension Boosts Rotterdam Maritime

The last Rotterdam Maritime in 2000 featured 477 stands comprising 30,000m

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of exhibition area and occupied by 650 exhibitors from 25 countries. The inland shipping sector continues to provide the largest exhibitor contingent but shipbuilding and repair is not far behind, followed by the fishing, merchant shipping, short sea, and dredging industries.

Exhibitors in 2000 reported a healthy average of 216 business encounters during the show, of which 54 were with totally new contacts.

Among the exhibitors at Rotterdam Maritime 2002, Bakker Sliedrecht Electro Industrie travel from nearby Sliedrecht to demonstrate their capability to provide marine electrical installations. The company is very well known within the dredging industry and has provided the largest ever submersible motor, of 6,500kW capacity, for the submerged dredgepumps on Jan De Nul’s world’s largest trailing suction hopper dredger Vasco da Gama.

The submerged pump installation will operate to a suction depth of 155m.

Reflecting the international flavour of the exhibitors at Maritime Rotterdam, Kobelt Manufacturing Company comes all the way from British Columbia in Canada to show their new Mighty Mariner, a simplified electronic control system for small craft.

Lemans Nederland will feature their new quick release towing and mooring hook, which slots into a towing range rated from as little as 500kN up to 150 tonnes.

Lemans will also be showing heavy duty pneumatic winches rated up to 30 tonnes pull as well as a range of hoists and pullies. New Norwegian manufactured hydraulic deck cranes were originally designed for commercial fishing use but are adaptable for a range of other applications.

There is indeed a city called Monster in the Netherlands, from where Oil Control Systems provides a range of pollution control equipment including silt screens and curtains used in dredging operations and to contain materials released by marine civil engineering works.

Their flexible and user friendly system makes it possible to use several skirt constructions with the same buoyancy section.

Inflatable chambers make for easy transportation and low storage volume.

Among the companies promoting maritime safety products, Beele Engineering will entertain visitors by demonstrating their luminescent YFESTOS evacuation route signposting system in a specially designed dark tunnel fitted with luminescent products such as hand rails, foot steps and pictograms.

Via a video link, visitors at Beele’s stand can observe their colleagues behaviour as they move through the tunnel and their reactions to the YFESTOS materials.

Home town company Imtech Marine & Offshore will show new developments in the field of diesel electric propulsion and will also be trumpeting their co-operation with Radio Holland Marine on ship automation projects.

HRP Thruster Systems is a well established supplier of azimuth thrusters rated up to 3,000hp.

Their thrusters are supplied for a broad range of workboats which includes offshore supply vessels, tugs and ferries. For Rotterdam Maritime, HRP will debut the Shallow Draft Thruster range based on an inboard propeller.

MJ Information No: 17500