Organisers of the Transtech Ports and Shipping Conference and Exhibition in St Petersburg say they have extended agreement with Expoforum, a Russian owner of conference centres, which provides the basis for continuing its traditional promotion of Russia’s Ports and Shipping infrastructure development programmes through 2018.

Transtech will be held in cooperation with the Neva Exhibitions in accordance with the Decree of the Russian Federation Government №1910-R signed 21 October 2013.

"This renewed agreement will strengthen cooperation between supporting ministries and serve to widen Transtech's profile, offering additional topics for discussion and providing new business opportunities which have been fostered directly from B2B interest shown during previous Transtech events," the organisers said in a statement.