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                 MARITIME BY HOLLAND
Maritime by Holland (Nederland Maritiem Land) is an umbrella organisation for industry associations and leading companies in the maritime sector; it represents the sub-sectors sea shipping, inland shipping, fishery, offshore, shipbuilding, yacht building/water sports, hydraulic engineering, maritime suppliers, ports, navy (marine) and maritime service providers including the Dutch Maritime Pilots’ Organisation. As a maritime trading nation, the Netherlands has an innovative maritime sector with 21,155 companies, 266,650 people and a total added value of EUR 23.4 billion. The five Dutch seaports add an additional EUR 36.9 billion and 267,200 jobs. The 250 inland ports account for EUR 7.7 billion and 65,000 jobs.
for the maritime sector, though. The automotive industry and aviation sector have submitted plans for this as well.”
AND AFTER THE R&D PHASE?
“If we as the Netherlands want to play a leading role internationally and attract a larger market share, we have to position ourselves right now. The tricky part here is that technologies are involved that have not yet been fully developed or do not even exist yet. We are ahead
of market demand and the current financing models are not geared
to this. The cost-recovery periods will be longer than at present,
with higher initial operating costs. It is important to persuade parties to participate through smart subsidies. The R&D phase is followed
by the crucial phase in which we need pioneers who will apply the technologies. That is why it is so important that the government, as launching customer, will commission twenty zero-emission ships as soon as possible, serving as an essential springboard for scaling up
on a broader level. But private shipowners are also expected to join
in. By 2030, this should ultimately culminate in fifty zero-emission
ships of various types for maritime and inland shipping, all built in the Netherlands. Keeping the momentum going, that is what matters here. As the Dutch maritime sector, we can do it.”
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