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Our Commitment to Event 
Sustainability

As event organisers, we believe we have a responsibility to work with our markets and create opportunities that lead to positive environmental, social and economic outcomes.

Seatrade Maritime UAE: Shaping a Sustainable Future

We know sustainability is increasingly important to our attendees and exhibitors, as well as to our market as a whole.

Running an event gives us lots of opportunities to improve our impacts environmentally, socially and economically in our host city. We want to make our event more responsible and play a role in helping our markets improve its own sustainability through connecting people with the networks and knowledge they want to help solve the big challenges in our sector.

We believe that by focusing on the issues where we are well positioned to make a positive impact, we have a great opportunity to play a role in enabling both our market and wider industry in becoming more sustainable.


Our Three Key Areas

sustainable development

1. Economical

Help our markets through inspiring sustainable development

We focus on:

  • Using our content to support the sustainability of the market the event serves
  • Inspiring our suppliers, exhibitors and other stakeholders to deliver a sustainable event
  • Developing market-relevant partnerships

2. Environmental

Run the event in an increasingly environmentally responsible manner

We focus on:

  • Reducing our event’s carbon emissions
  • Creating less waste
  • Considering the sustainability credentials of the items sourced for the events
environmentally responsible
socially responsible manner

3. Social

Run the event in a socially responsible manner

We focus on:

  • Doing business safely and ethically
  • Considering wellbeing and accessibility
  • Creating a positive impact on our host cities
  • Considering wellbeing and accessibility
  • Measuring our impacts


Better Stands Programme

Better Stands Programme

The Better Stands Programme aims to unite and encourage exhibitors, along with their appointed contractors, to move away from disposable, single-use stands at events, in favour of re-usable or recyclable structures. A disposable stand or booth is a space-only/raw space build that is used only once. They are typically constructed from poor quality raw materials onsite which are then demolished post-show and sent to either landfill or burned.

We believe that by moving away from the use of disposable stands we will improve the ease, safety, and sustainability of the exhibitor experience at our events.