Conference Partner

ASMAR
Website: www.asmar.cl

ASMAR is a leading Chilean company specializing in a full spectrum of comprehensive solutions for the worldwide ship owning community ranging from ship maintenance, repair, conversion, upgrading and modernization of all kind of ships to building of military ships such as OPV's, transport vessels and landing crafts as well as commercial vessels. ASMAR has over a hundred years of experience in docking and shipbuilding activities for the military and commercial sectors and a sound reputation in the both markets.

ASMAR has facilities in Talcahuano, Valparaiso and Punta Arenas (Chile), aiming at providing cost-effective solutions in motivated hands. The company has a stable and skilled workforce of over 3,500 professionals, technicians and specialists that contribute to ASMAR’s proven ability to be highly competitive in the global marine market.

ASMAR also has a presence in 45 countries around the world through a network of agents.

Conference Sponsor

DCNS
Website: www.dcnsgroup.com

With 13,000 employees and an order book worth over ? 8 billion, DCNS is a major player on the European and world markets for value-adding naval defence systems.

DCNS offers surface combatants for full-scale military operations, such as FM 400 command & control flexible frigates or FREMM multi-mission frigates with integrated mission systems (e.g. SETIS combat system) and provides global solutions for maritime safety and security around the GOWIND® family of OPVs and corvettes.

DCNS also offers a full range of naval services, such as the support needed locally to perform the design adaptation and shipbuilding of surface vessels.

Associate Sponsors

DIAB
Website: www.diabgroup.com

DIAB Group is a world leader in composite solutions and has played a very significant role in the acceptance and adoption of light weight/high strength sandwich composites for a wide range of military and para-military craft.

DIAB has been intimately involved in projects throughout the world that include rescue boats, landing craft, patrol boats, surface effect vessels and full-size ships such as the full sandwich composite, Visby corvettes that were built by Kockums AB.

DIAB’s involvement is not just limited to the supply of core materials but extends to technology support in such areas as composite engineering, composite component testing, manufacturing process development and production personnel training.

Kongsberg
Website: www.km.kongsberg.com

Kongsberg Maritime, a company in the Kongsberg group, is the leading supplier of advanced maritime automation and instrumentation systems.

With its strong application knowledge and trend-setting quality products, Kongsberg Maritime is able to offer unique and complete solutions for offshore oil & gas installations, specialized purpose-built vessels, sub-sea construction support, seabed surveying and mapping.

Kongsberg Maritime has around 1,500 employees. The company has subsidiaries world wide in addition to four locations in Norway.

Decentralization lets subsidiary companies optimize and focus on customer relationships.

SCHOTTEL
Website: www.schottel.de

SCHOTTEL is a group of companies specializing in the development, design, production and marketing of azimuth propulsion and manoeuvring systems, as well as complete propulsion systems. For decades now, SCHOTTEL has supplied navies and armies around the world with customized systems tailored to specific requirements. Alongside conventional and mechanical SCHOTTEL propulsion systems and manoeuvring devices, such as Rudderpropellers (SRP), Twin-Propellers (STP), Navigators (NAV), Controllable-pitch propellers (SCP), Pump-Jets (SPJ) and Transverse Thrusters (STT), other diesel and gas-electric systems have been added to the range in recent years, such as the SCHOTTEL Combi Drive.

Featured Exhibitor

CNIM group
Website: www.cnim.com

The CNIM group provides turnkey industrial solutions with high technological content and offers research and expertise services through its subsidiary Bertin. Its main business sectors are Environmental, Engineering, Complex Systems for Defence and Industry, Transport, Energy and Life Sciences.

Defence systems include advanced equipment and technology for Defence, Aeronautics, Space and Nuclear Industries as well as for Scientific Research. The innovative Landing Catamaran (L-Cat) has been completely designed by CNIM to meet the requirements of modern navies: to project forces and sustain large amphibious operations, with a rapid and innovative connector.

The main purpose was to be able to maintain the mother and precious ship far from the coast and the threat: it means a rapid, good seakeeping with a large cargo and beachable landing craft. This was impossible with classical flat bottom ships; designed the proper solution, a variable draft catamaran. Our self founded proptotype has been now sailing for more than one year, successful in the many trials of the French Navy which decided in June 09 to order a first batch of four L-Cat.