GCE Blue Maritime Cluster
GCE Blue Maritime Cluster helps ocean-based companies with international success. BMC is based in Ålesund, Norway, part of the Ålesund Innovation Park (ÅKP) which help startups and publicly listed companies in the Norwegian Maritime Cluster to export and innovate. It has around 200 members representing the offshore shipbuilding value chain with ship owners, ship designers, shipyards, equipment manufacturers, software and service providers, and research and education institutions.
BMC’s strategy, the New Blue Deal – the road to a net-zero maritime cluster, is to promote maritime energy efficiencies, alternative fuels, digitalization, cybersecurity, and diversity in the maritime industry. BMC is part of many national, European, and Nordic research and innovation projects where its role is mainly networking in the initiation phase, dissemination, and workshop management.