COPENEHEGEN: Denmark wants to become a global frontrunner through tests of maritime autonomous technologies and maritime digitalization, creating more work-experience places at sea and increasing the number of applicants admitted to the training programmes for masters and ship officers. It will also work closely with industry to ensure the development of an overall maritime marketing strategy. The Government’s ‘Plan for Growth’ is based on the recommendations made by its Maritime Strategy Team.
Brian Mikkelsen, Denmark’s Minister for Industry, Business and Growth, said: ”With the Plan for Growth in the Danish Maritime Sector, the Government has set the course for Denmark to become a global maritime power hub by 2025. “Now, all forces in the Danish maritime sector must join forces, roll up their sleeves and get to work to make the vision behind the plan for growth into reality.” The Danish maritime sector is one of the country’s most important export sectors and a major supplier of jobs.However, the industry is faced with tough competition in the world market; a market undergoing rapid change as a consequence of changes to the global distribution of work, consumer behaviour and digital and technological developments. The 36 initiatives presented in the Plan for Growth focus on individual challenges as well as on more general framework conditions, and is based on the results already achieved through an industrial and entrepreneurial agreement from November 2017.
