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UK-Belgium Maritime Innovation Day 2025

Securing our Maritime Infrastructure

27/05/2025

Call of interest to British and Belgian Innovators in Maritime Security

 

The British Embassy in Brussels, the Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Blue Cluster are delighted to invite British and Belgian Maritime technology companies to apply to participate to the second edition of our maritime event series; 'UK-Belgium Maritime Innovation Day 2025: Securing our Maritime Infrastructure'.

 

The North Sea, with its busy shipping routes, fisheries, nature conservation, sand extraction and (green) energy infrastructure is small in space yet very busy in activities. In the context of current geopolitical and economical challenges, the security of the North Sea is seen to be at risk, which forces the North Sea countries surrounding this critical space to cooperate an various fields to share and mitigate risk.

 

State-of-the-Art technology will be required to face issues of hacking, sabotage, theft or damage  to ensure the industry’s needs are secured. Therefore, the British Embassy, in close cooperation  with the Port of Antwerp-Bruges and the Belgian Blue Cluster is delighted to be able to organise a second edition of our Maritime Innovation Day.

 

For this 2025 edition, we are seeking to invite innovative British and Belgain Maritime Innovators who can meet the Belgian Blue Cluster challenges and present solutions to the main threats our Belgian partners have highlighted.  

 

When will this event take place? 27th May 2025

Where? Port Authority Building, Antwerp, Belgium

For whom? This event is aiming at inviting British and Belgian maritime businesses who can present an operational commercial solution to the Belgian audience of port authorities, ship owners, logistical operators and freight forwarders, based on the main four challenges Blue Cluster has detected within the reality of the North Sea exploitation.   

For more information on these four concrete challenges, please consult the ‘challenges’ tab at the top of this page.

How to apply to this event? Register below by 16th March 2025

Partners 

For this second edition of the event, British Embassy Brussels is partnering with Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Blue Cluster. Both of them are crucial players in the Belgian maritime industry. Please find below more information about each of them below.

 

The Port of Antwerp-Bruges is the second largest port in Europe, with more than 300 liner services to more than 800 destinations, thereby ensuring worldwide connectivity. Every year, they handle around 290 million tonnes of international maritime cargo and they are home to Europe's largest integrated chemical cluster.The port employs, directly and indirectly, a total of 164,000 people and generates added value of more than €21 billion. As such, it is an important lifeline for the Belgian economy.' More information on the port here: Our port in a single click | Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Blue Cluster is an independent and neutral partner supporting Flemish companies in setting up partnerships with other companies, knowledge centres and government agencies with a view to developing and promoting offshore economic activities.' More information here: Blue Cluster - Network of innovative organizations in the sustainable blue economy

 

 

 

 

Are you a UK company active in the maritime industry?  Are you interested by the Belgian market? If so, apply to attend our event to present your solution to an expert audience.