The European Commission has officially launched the new EU Industrial Maritime Value Chains Alliance, following up on its commitment in the recently adopted European Industrial Maritime Strategy.
The maritime industry is a cornerstone of Europe's economic security and strategic autonomy, with a key role in safeguarding supply chains, ensuring defence readiness and supporting the clean and digital transitions.
The alliance aims to bring together maritime manufacturers, shipowners and other downstream users, EU Member States and their regions, investors, and social partners.
Its goal is to help strengthen Europe's maritime industrial and technological sovereignty in identified lead markets, notably segments with a potential to bolster Europe's maritime manufacturing capacity. The alliance will help to create business cases for scaling up production and deployment in market segments and technologies relevant for the EU manufacturing base and address the needs of the shipping, ports, and other segments of the maritime sector. (....)