Since its inauguration in 2008, Monch Publishing Group has been supporting the bi-annual, high level Conference on Maritime Security and Defence (MS&D), organized by Hamburg Messe und Congress and sponsored by the Federal German Government.

Both parties now agreed on a longer lasting partnership, where Monch’s international magazine NAVAL FORCES will, as in the past, also provide the conference program – the center piece of all MS&Ds – for the next event, which will take place in Hamburg, Germany from 15 to 17 June 2011. In its panels on SECURITY and DEFENCE the conference will deal with issues relating to the security of our sea lines of communication and harbors as well as maritime crisis management operations respectively. High ranking speakers and delegates will come from navies and coast guards (amongst them several Chiefs), other national and international organizations involved in maritime security, ship owners and naval industry from all over the world.