Dutch Damen Shipyards Group has actually come to be a business companion of the Port XL accelerator program for the maritime market.
Port XL has actually been referred to as the globe’s very first port accelerator. Its goal is the velocity of ingenious innovations for the environment-friendly power, maritime, logistics, and also procedure market in port areas throughout the globe.
This is not the very first time Damen has actually been gotten in touch with Port XL. In 2015 Damen was just one of the very first business to sustain the start-up assistance program in its very early days.
“We will be participating again from this year on,” clarifies Tom Akkerman ofDamen “We want to boost the transition of the maritime sector. In addition to our Research, Development & Innovation trajectories and our own Corporate Venturing program, in which we work together with start-ups and scale-ups, collaboration within PortXL is an excellent opportunity to create acceleration in the field of sustainability and digitalization.”
Tara Koole, Program Manager at Port XL claimed: “At PortXL we welcome Damen and look forward to working together towards our common mission. Our corporate partners are at the forefront of maritime innovation. Their desire to innovate and collaborate with novel solutions is what fuels PortXL.”
The market has significant difficulties in advance of it, the primary 2 being power shift and also digitalization. The look for decreasing exhausts to (practically) no is a venture that will certainly form delivery in the following years. The digitalization of procedures is a prerequisite for this however is additionally an especially vital chauffeur to boost the top quality and also performance of job generally, Damen claimed in a declaration.
The Port XL ecological community includes startups and also scale-ups, capitalists and also companions, and also business such as lead companions Van Oord and also Port of Rotterdam, in addition to companions Vopak, Boskalis, Shell, Oceanco, Deltares, City of Rotterdam, Ampelmann, Damen, Innovation Quarter and also Provincie Zuid-Holland
According to Port XL, which remains in its 7th year of procedure, Port XL has actually thus far implemented greater than 10 programs, sped up greater than 100 startups and also scale-ups, and also promoted the finalizing of over 220 agreements.
