DIMDEX 2024 Most Successful Expo in terms of Deals, Delegations, Companies, Chairman of Organising Committee Confirms

Doha, March 06 (QNA) - Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (DIMDEX 2024), Staff Brigadier (Sea) Abdulbaqi Saleh Al Ansari emphasized that the 8th edition of DIMDEX 2024 was the most successful editions since its inception in 2008 at all levels, in terms of the number of signed deals, visiting delegations, space and the number of visitors and exhibitors.
   In press remarks following the conclusion of DIMDEX 2024 held at the Qatar National Convention Centre, Al Ansari added that the three-day exhibition garnered a substantial number of visitors, high-level delegations, high-ranking officials, and culminated in the signing of deals, whether they were contracts, agreements, or memorandums of understanding.
   Over 90 percent of exhibitors showed the desire to participate in the upcoming 9th edition of DIMDEX, underscoring the superb organizational attitude, the quality of offered services and facilitations, Al Ansari highlighted. He pointed out that this milestone was a motivation to exert further efforts to cover other aspects that concern exhibitors, he outlined that they will be announced once the international agenda of similar exhibitions is carefully reviewed to avoid overlapping, affirming that the coming events will be diverse and include other branches to ensure maintaining the identity of DIMDEX as an event exclusively related to maritime security.
Several companies signed the contracts of their participation in 2026 edition to ensure that they had reserved their designated spaces, after all spaces in the 2024 edition were reserved a month before its launch, prompting an exponential number of participating firms this year to reserve their designated spaces and pavilions, Al Ansari confirmed.
   He pointed out that there is an intention to increase the number of firms by considering the available spaces and the center’s capacity, adding that the organizing committee was committed to increasing the number of exhibitors to figure out the negative points or feedback to be avoided in the future, but all companies underscored their high organizational capabilities, he underlined.
   Chairman of the Organizing Committee of DIMDEX 2024 stressed that the event is one of the most professional exhibitions in the world, in terms of the organizational level and services afforded to exhibitors, pointing out that the organizing committee had launched an electronic application on cell phones that included details that broadly benefited the visitors, delegations and firms through which appointments requests could be handled between company officials, visitors and delegations.
   He noted that during the first three days of the event, the application, in question, was downloaded more than 1000 times, as the exhibition had been keen to be electronic, specially that it is specialized in military technology and must keep up with the breakthroughs and sustainability, the mantra it advocates for.
   Regarding the visiting ships that were docking at Doha Port as an event organized alongside DIMDEX 2024, Al Ansari highlighted that this event featured a fleet of ships, vessels and naval battleships of the participating countries that supported their pavilions and exhibitors, in addition to demonstrating the prowess of those participating countries and their robust relationships with the State of Qatar. (QNA)