3 March 2025

Call of interest to British and Belgian Innovators in Maritime Security

The British Embassy in Brussels, the Port of Antwerp-Bruges and Blue Cluster are delighted to invite British and Belgian Maritime technology companies to apply to participate to the second edition of our maritime event series; 'UK-Belgium Maritime Innovation Day 2025: Securing our Maritime Infrastructure'.

The North Sea, with its busy shipping routes, fisheries, nature conservation, sand extraction and (green) energy infrastructure is small in space yet very busy in activities. In the context of current geopolitical and economical challenges, the security of the North Sea is seen to be at risk, which forces the North Sea countries surrounding this critical space to cooperate an various fields to share and mitigate risk.

State-of-the-Art technology will be required to face issues of hacking, sabotage, theft or damage  to ensure the industry’s needs are secured. Therefore, the British Embassy, in close cooperation  with the Port of Antwerp-Bruges and the Belgian Blue Cluster is delighted to be able to organise a second edition of our Maritime Innovation Day.

For this 2025 edition, we are seeking to invite innovative British and Belgian Maritime Innovators who can meet the Belgian Blue Cluster challenges and present solutions to the main threats our Belgian partners have highlighted.  

When will this event take place? 27th May 2025

Where? Port Authority Building, Antwerp, Belgium

For whom? This event is aiming at inviting British and Belgian maritime businesses who can present an operational commercial solution to the Belgian audience of port authorities, ship owners, logistical operators and freight forwarders, based on the main four challenges Blue Cluster has detected within the reality of the North Sea exploitation.   

For more information on these four concrete challenges, please consult the ‘challenges’ tab at the top of this page.

How to apply to this event? Register by 16th March 2025 here.