International Maritime Business Forum & Exhibition SIMBF is committed to developing the international maritime business in the Russian Federation, i.e.: ship repair and shipbuilding, shipping,  ship supply services, port services, cruisers, yachting and etc.

Forum SIMBF was founded in 2013 in Sevastopol city, the Crimea.
The first letter of SIMBF stands for Sevastopol. SIMBF includes business conferences, meetings, other maritime business events and exhibition. The Forum is an annual event that helps international and Russian companies to develop their businesses in Russia, especially in the Southern Federal District.

   In 2013 SIMBF made recommendations for Russian, Eurasian, Ukrainian and the European Union  maritime market, and in 2014 the actuality for the maritime business moved to Russian market and, especially Crimea and Sevastopol.
Since 2013 SIMBF has been a unique B2B and B2Government platform for the companies, which are interested in development of their business, not only in the maritime clusters.
In 2014 SIMBF was harmoniously complemented with one-day maritime exhibition.

The exhibition showed an interest of the participants to the complementation and in 2015 there were three exhibition days, incorporated to Forum business program.

In June 2016 there were be also three days for Exhibition events according to the program of SIMBF 2016.

SIMBF 2016 conferences were held in June 09-11, 2016 in Sevastopol city.

The main business topics were: ship repair & shipbuilding, Free Economic Area of the Crimea, maritime transport, logistics, crewing, tourism in the Crimea, yachting and Russian cruises.

Following SIMBF 2016 events and meetings Expert Committe of the Forum developted the Resolution 1/SIMBF/2016 dtd. 04 July 2016. The key ideas of the Resolution were implemented by the Government of the Russian Federation. 

Forum SIMBF 2017 will take place in Sevastopol city in June 07-09, 2017.

The mission of SIMBF team is to provide high-class services to foster business development of our clients in Russia, especially in Crimea and Sevastopol.
We provide marketing platforms for exchange of ideas, information and obtain new business knowledge in areas of interest to the participants of our events.
In addition to providing exhibition services we offer reservation of hotels and tourism related services to our clients, together with education and scientific activities. Our business tourism will help you to combine the pleasant and the useful.
We always investigate and analyze the work of all our conferences, forums, exhibitions and other events for improvement of their levels,doing the work of our clients more effective.

Keywords: Business forum SIMBF. Doing business in Russia. Russian business consulting. Russian business associations.