German Maritime Center

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The German Maritime Center is an association that serves as a national platform for the German maritime industry.

history

The German Maritime Center (DMZ) was founded in 2017. The initiators were the Association for Shipbuilding and Marine Technology (VSM) and the IG Metall coast .

Members

Founding members are the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , the State of Lower Saxony , as well as leading associations of the maritime industry such as the VSM, the Association of German Shipowners (VDR), the Central Association of German Ship Brokers, the German Boat and Shipbuilders Association and the Central Association of German Seaport Companies . Further members are the states of Schleswig-Holstein , Bremen and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as well as the Association of German Captains and Ship Officers and the Maritime Cluster Northern Germany.

Management and funding

The DMZ is based in Hamburg. The five-member board of the new maritime institution consists of top officials and association officials. The managing director is the 42-year-old shipbuilding engineer Wolfgang Sichermann. The DMZ is initially being financed by the BMVI with nine million euros for three years.

target

The purpose of the association is to increase the competitiveness and innovative strength of the entire German maritime location and to strengthen the know-how as well as the career prospects in the maritime industry. Another goal is to bring together the common economic interests of the northern German states in transport projects, to strengthen the expansion of renewable energies and the development of the northern German ports and to represent all future topics of the maritime industry and economy.

At the DMZ, the competencies of the federal, state, business, scientific and trade unions in Hamburg are to be bundled in order to improve the infrastructure for the more than 400,000 employees in the entire maritime sector and to increase competitiveness and innovative strength. An important focus is placed on the cross-industry transfer of knowledge and technology , combined with the rapid implementation of research results in pilot projects and prototypes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from the MPs Claudia Müller, Kai Gehring, Matthias Gastel, other MPs and the Alliance 90 / THE GREENS parliamentary group regarding the establishment of the German Maritime Center. Printed matter 19/6848. German Bundestag, January 21, 2019, accessed on February 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ [1] welt.de think tank for the maritime economy