MONDAY 6 MARCH 2006 – WELCOME RECEPTION, THE QUEEN ELIZABETH II CONFERENCE CENTRE, LONDON

SPONSORED BY Inmarsat (no charge for delegates and accompanying guests)

Delegates and guests are invited to celebrate the opening of the World Maritime Technology Conference

TUESDAY 7 MARCH 2006 – CONFERENCE RECEPTION, The London Aquarium, 1930 – 2100 HOURS

£60.00 (£51.06 + £8.94 17.5% VAT) for non-delegate attendees
(Included in attendee fees 1-3)

Note – The Conference reception has been moved from the Guildhall due to circumstances beyond IMarEST’s control.

Situated on the ground floor of County Hall opposite the Houses of Parliament, right near the British Airways London Eye and within easy walking distance (or a short taxi ride) from the QEII Conference Centre, the whole of the venue will be open to delegates and exhibitors who will make their descent into the tranquil depths of the London Aquarium to sip their ‘welcome’ drink with the sharks, chat alongside the piranhas and stingrays in the tropical rainforest and mangrove area; and move at will between the Pacific and Atlantic areas.

The £25 million London Aquarium is the first attraction of its kind in the capital, and is one of Europe's largest exhibitions of global aquatic life, displayed in over 2 million litres of water.

Just a few facts and figures to marvel at:

• There are approximately 50 different displays, which hold approximately 3000 different forms of marine life.
• The two main tanks are some of the largest in the UK. The Pacific display holds approximately 1 million litres of water and the Atlantic tank holds 750,000 litres of water. The remaining tanks in the aquarium hold between 1,000 litres to 70,000 litres of water.
• New features last year included new octopus, jellyfish, mangrove and European freshwater displays       
• If you wanted to travel the world to see all the fish and invertebrate at the aquarium you would cover 38,337 miles. 
• The livestock at the Aquarium consume 12 tons of food a year, that's the same weight as 3,800 gold bullion bars.
• The Aquarium receives the equivalent weight of 9 London buses in salt annually to make up their seawater.
  

THURSDAY 9 MARCH 2006 – WMTC CLOSING RECEPTION, THE QEII CONFERENCE CENTRE,

1745 – 1900 HOURS
(No charge for delegates and accompanying guests)

FRIDAY 10 MARCH 2006 – WMTC CONFERENCE DINNER AND IMarEST 103RD ANNUAL

DINNER, GROSVENOR HOUSE, LONDON, 1830 – 2300 HOURS
£75.00 (£63.83 + £11.17 17.5% VAT)

WMTC 2006 will culminate on 10 March with the WMTC Conference Dinner and IMarEST Annual Dinner at which the guest speaker will be The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of The City of London , Alderman David Brewer CMG. Typically over 750 leading maritime professionals attend this annual event. In 2006, WMTC delegates and their partners will swell that number and the combined WMTC Conference and IMarEST Annual Dinner will mark the end of what promises to be a highly successful WMTC 2006.