Polaris has been appointed to promote the 18th annual Maritime Economic Forum Gdynia in Poland.
Polaris managing director Ben Pinnington attended the event to help promote it to the English language international maritime media. Read press release
“We were delighted to be appointed to help raise awareness of this very influential and important conference,” he said. “Polaris is one of the few maritime specialist PR firms in Europe and we have close ties to Poland through family and have been visiting Poland regularly for the last seven years. Polaris has a real understanding of Poland and for some time we have been helping Polish maritime and engineering companies with English language marketing. The forum is a brilliantly organised, well-established, hard-hitting event which brings all the major players together in one place to discuss the key issues facing Poland’s maritime sector. The forum wants to engage the global maritime sector and promote Poland’s maritime industry which is brimming with talent and opportunities, we are pleased Polaris can help support this aim.”
The Maritime Economic Forum was staged at Pomeranian Science and Technology conference centre and is now one of the biggest and most influential maritime events in Poland. The event saw representatives from Poland’s ship-building, ports, shipping, manufacturing and small business sectors attend. The forum hosted 30 speakers and witnessed a number of speeches and panels demanding action from the Polish Government and the EU to support Poland’s maritime sector – which speakers said is fundamental to the nation’s economy. Forum leader Slawomir Kalicki, President of the Gdynia-based Inter Marine Group, said the voice of the forum is getting louder each year with members of the Polish Government and the EU Commission attending the event. Closing the conference he appealed for the forum’s ‘opinions and ideas to be heard and conclusions implemented.’
Later in the evening delegates and speakers from the forum joined more than 2500 maritime professionals for the annual ‘duck dinner’ in Gdynia celebrating Poland’s maritime industry.
POLARIS BACKGROUND
Polaris offers specialist marketing services designed to help maritime businesses inm the UK and overseas grow. Services range from PR, creative design, copywriting, social media, translations, trade fair support, coporate video, photography and media buying. The company, run by NCTJ qualified newspaper journalist brothers Ben and Sam Pinnington, was founded in the port city region of Liverpool and has grown an international client base including Cammell Laird, Roxtec, Atlantic Container Line, Oman Shipping, the Port of Portland (UK), Naval Rocha, SeaKing Electrical, Intermarine UK, Baltec Marine and Romica Engineering. Polaris further sits on the British Marine Equipment Committee of the Society of Maritime Industries in London. The SMI is a trade body acting as the voice of the maritime engineering industry in the UK.