The Greek shipping cluster on a global level

The Greek maritime clump “Maritime Hellas” is raising the integer level and is proceeding with a “scale up” of the services it will connection to its members successful the adjacent future, Vassilis Korkidis, President of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said.

In general, concern clusters tin beryllium to beryllium highly important for the assemblage and the nationalist economy. I deliberately used the plural due to the fact that astatine the Defence Exhibition Athens different clump emerged, which concerns the operation of ships for our Navy. I judge that it is time, therefore, to determination from the “verba volant” astir clusters to practice, successful bid to item and reap the benefits that these clusters supply arsenic businesses and the economy, arsenic we person already accepted that maritime clusters tin beryllium to beryllium highly important for the assemblage and the nationalist economy.

I person argued and proceed to reason that it would beryllium wiser to make opportunities alternatively than pursuit them oregon exploit those that are connected the horizon. We indispensable determination from theory to practice, successful bid to maximize the imaginable of the clusters arsenic they are recorded, utilizing an outward-looking argumentation successful conjunction with the motorboat of those indispensable reforms to escaped ourselves from the brakes of the past that person outgo us so much.

Geopolitical developments person awakened the European Union, which has resulted successful talking astir the revitalization of European shipyards and the strengthening of their competitiveness, but besides astir European defense, a ample portion of which concerns each types of warships that indispensable beryllium produced oregon adjacent modernized successful the discourse of the improvement of the defence instrumentality of the EU subordinate states.

It is simply a fortunate coincidence that successful Piraeus, which is among the strongest shipping centers, the “heart” of the largest Greek shipping manufacture beats. The Greek-owned fleet represents 20% of the world’s tonnage and a ample portion of it is managed by Greece. Our shipping industry, particularly successful the existent discourse of historical changes successful terms of regulatory framework, fuel, geopolitical instability and the displacement successful planetary trade, tin payment from the successful cognition of a dynamic shipping cluster, which presently numbers much than 234 members and is organized done 7 categories.

We each cognize that shipping is simply a purely extroverted planetary enactment and Greek shipping is 1 of the main productive pillars of the Greek economy, with its nonstop and indirect publication ranging from 6.5% to 8% of GDP. The strengthening of the competitiveness and extroversion of shipping companies is done done investments successful technologies and upgrading services. Shipping innovation is simply a capital-intensive and knowledge-intensive sector, where we indispensable marque each effort to amended the level of cognition of the workforce that is progressive successful the full spectrum of shipping activities connected onshore and astatine sea, connected caller technologies, related to the shipping effort, and not only, successful the tract of greenish transition. And present the relation of the clump is decisive.

I besides spoke astir an emerging clump of synergies, which was “revealed” with the constitution of the Association of Hellenic Shipyards, where, among others, the shipyards of the Gulf of Elefsis, Perama and Chalkida indispensable marque a dynamic “presence” by showcasing their capabilities to physique warships, but besides to physique rider ships, mega yachts oregon repair commercialized ships of each types. It is, therefore, evident that we indispensable spot the surplus values, but besides the value of the geopolitical presumption of our country, by gathering units connected behalf of the Navy, fixed that astir the shipyards, a special clump will develop, which will see companies that physique systems for warships, startups, adjacent university institutions and probe centers. Companies, some of which besides person a beingness successful the planetary market.

We should besides look astatine the numbers and the truth they present. The Elefsis Shipyards, arsenic well arsenic the Skaramangas Shipyards, look to person recorded important increases successful their turnover successful the past two years. A total of 14 regions successful the state person licenses to transportation retired shipbuilding and repair work, including Salamis, Chalkida, Syros, Lavrio, Thessaloniki, Heraklion and Volos. In 2024, 32,000 licenses to transportation retired shipbuilding and repair work were issued done the physics level of the Ministry of Shipping “e-DLA” passim Greece, while successful 2023, 24,000 licenses were issued.

At the aforesaid time, manufacturing, technology and work businesses astir shipping operated, caller jobs were opened, synergies and collaborations were realized and each of this translated into an enactment that was highly export-oriented, highly dynamic and of peculiar value for the country’s extroverted presumption successful the planetary economical and governmental arena. Our shipbuilding manufacture indispensable make autonomously with a special wide secretariat, due to the fact that it creates surplus value, provides added value and done the clusters collaborates with astatine slightest 850 Greek shipping support businesses. Therefore, we indispensable support the Greek shipping cluster, utilize it and not sermon it.