It’s been quietly in preparation for a while now, but the Danish Ocean Cluster, based in Hirtshals, is now open for business as it seeks to strengthen commercial relations within the blue sector – especially focusing on innovative and circular business models and facilitating new projects.
The new cluster has been established on the initiative of the Nordsøen Forskerpark, the Port of Hirtshals and Greenport North, and it’s on the model used by the highly successful Icelandic Ocean Cluster that began to take shape by the Reykjavík quayside a dozen years ago and has since led to the creation of further such clusters in Northern Europe and North America.
According to the team behind the Danish Ocean Cluster, this is a Danish organisation with an international outlook.
‘We are open to any company or organisation with interests in actively seeking new industrial symbioses for commercial as well as environmental benefits,’ the cluster’s founders state.
‘We care for the sustainability in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean as well as the viability of the Danish fish sector and the Danish industrial ports. We expect that the cluster will have a positive impact on all companies and industries in Denmark that work with the supply of equipment and technologies for fishing and aquaculture. In addition, there are currently new industries on their way to Denmark, which means we need a rethink in relation to the utilisation of resources and the transformation of residual products into raw materials.’
