Dutch Treat for Visitors to Sold Out METS

METS provides a welcome annual meeting place for yacht builders, designers, repairers, distributors, wholesalers, dealers and manufacturers and marina operators from around the world.

At METS they will find thousands of products, materials and services for both pleasure and small commercial craft as the line between the leisure and commercial marine sectors becomes ever less visible.

A new element of this year’s show is the Marina Equipment Pavilion, where exhibitors who concentrate on the marina sector will mount a joint presentation.

The latest developments and trends in this sector will be discussed during a one day seminar for marina designers, managers, operators and developers. The seminar, which takes place on Wednesday 20 November, includes presentations on the planning and design of marinas by Greg Haigh of the UK’s Ove Arup & Partners, and an examination of various aspects of boat handling by Bas Hof of Roodberg in the Netherlands.

The 15 national pavilions are generally arranged in cooperation with national trade associations.

Turkey is a METS newcomer for 2002 and Australia, France, Sweden, Italy and the UK have all increased the size of their pavilions. Other national pavilions at METS 2002 are from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain and the USA.

METS 2002 will also see the 12th presentation of DAME, the METS Design Award.

New products will be assessed in terms of their design, functionality, originality, innovativeness, user-friendliness and price/ quality ratio. In addition to the DAME main prize, honourable mentions are given for various categories and short listed products are displayed in a separate ‘exhibition within an exhibition’.

Admission to METS is restricted to trade visitors but is free to those employed in the marine industries. For further information and advance registration, visit the METS website at www.metstrade.com.