The GASTECH Hosted Buyers Programme 2011

Hosted buyer programme the perfect match for buyers and sellers

Representatives from 18 countries attended the fourth Gastech Hosted Buyers Programme organised by Riviera Maritime Media in Amsterdam and in partnership with Gastech 2011. This international participation underlines the significant cost savings for buyers and sellers to have one-to-one meetings and do business in one place at one time.

Held the day before Gastech opened at the inspiring 16th Century St Olof's Chapel in the heart of Amsterdam , the 2011 Hosted Buyers Programme was for the first time opened up to LPG as well as the LNG market, a contributing factor to the event achieving its largest number of participants to date.

The world's gas carrier fleet was well represented with participation from major players including BG Group, Dynagas, I M Skaugen, K Line, MISC Berhad, and Mitsui OSK Lines. Mohd Izzam Ismail, manager, LNG New Ventures, MISC Berhad, believed that the one-day Hosted Buyers Programme was "a one-stop meeting place for networking and an exchange of views and offers the opportunity for discussions on issues and potential deals".

Andrew Brown, director, Bestobell LNG who sponsored the event for the third consecutive time, was delighted with the outcome and happy to support it. "The Gastech Hosted Buyers Programme is a well organised and unique idea" he said.

There continues to be a demand on the part of gas carrier owners, charterers, managers and builders for an opportunity to sit down and discuss their needs with ship equipment suppliers and service providers. In bringing together senior executive procurement managers and established suppliers from the global gas shipping industry in exclusive surroundings, Riviera's Hosted Buyers Programme opens up many more possibilities for developing partnerships.

Mike Porter, Events Director at Riviera Maritime Media believed that the programme was a perfect match for the buyers and sellers. "The Hosted Buyers Programme has proved once again to be a popular addition to the Gastech programme with 100 per cent of the participants indicating via their feedback forms that the 2011 event has met their objectives for attending. In order to continue to meet high expectations we will continue to move with the market and deliver exactly what the market wants in the future".

To keep up-to-date on future Riviera events please visit: www.rivieramm.com/events


 

The GASTECH Hosted Buyers Programme was successfully introduced as an integral part of Gastech in 2006 to satisfy a demand from LNG carrier owners, operators, charterers, managers and builders to have an opportunity for planned private meetings with recognised equipment suppliers and service providers. It is now established as an important element of Gastech, the largest international event serving the LNG, LPG and natural gas industries.

Why arrange your appointments all over the world when we can bring them all together for you in one place?

By matching key buyers and sellers for a series of one-to-one business meetings, the Hosted Buyers Programme offers an unrivalled forum for big industry names to meet and do business together.

Take the opportunity to forge business relations that can only be achieved from individual face to face meetings with key decision makers.

Your meetings schedules are designed to achieve the following:

• enrich existing or new business relations
• meet corporate demands
• enable huge savings on time, human resources and money expended on global travel.

Our programme offers buyers the opportunity to compete with their peers for the best deal from suppliers, and sellers the opportunity to better understand and deliver to the needs of new and existing clients.
 

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