Many benefits of port cooperation

Maritime companies can experience many advantages by locating in one of the Danish ports. This is what Tine Kirk Pedersen, Director of the Danish Ports Association, tells Sanne-Maria Bjerno Jakobsen from MediaPlanet. "It can be rewarding for companies to be part of the business community at the ports. Here they can be part of different cluster environments, which can help to create good contacts and perhaps develop new products." She points out that it is obvious, for example, for companies that develop and supply technical equipment for ships. They can benefit from living close to other companies that supply similar types of equipment. Scrap and fish fillets Tine Kirk Pedersen explains that there are many different types of companies located in ports, even though we don't think much about it on a daily basis - for example fish fillet factories, ship smiths and scrap companies that specialize in scrapping ships and drilling platforms, for example. If they locate in a port where similar businesses are located and where the infrastructure is suitable for the industry, both they and the port can mutually benefit from being close together. "Maritime clusters can strengthen companies among themselves, and this can therefore also have an effect on Denmark's earnings through imports and exports. Denmark is a maritime nation, and the ports contribute to the country's economy." Danish ports also create value in the local area. They create jobs and attract people to the area. And this provides fertile ground for more businesses to gain a foothold. In the future, Tine Kirk Pedersen hopes that more people will see the opportunities offered by ports. She points to the benefits of moving more goods around the world via the 'blue highways', as she calls ocean transportation. "It is much better for the environment to transport goods by ship than by truck. And it relieves traffic on land." Source: MediaPlanet / Sanne-Maria Bjerno Jakobsen