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In the port of Rotterdam a incubatore of innovative starts-up in the logistic-harbour field will be created
Smits (Port of Rotterdam Authority): "we want to be smart and the more innovative port of the world"
October 30, 2015
The Harbour Authority of Rotterdam has started an unknown initiative in world-wide the harbour panorama. Draft of PortXL, a incubatore of innovative starts-up with a program of activity centralized specifically on the port and the industries connected to the Dutch harbour port of call. The new incubatore is on the lookout for new enterprises in the fields of the transports and the logistics, the energy, chemistry, the refining and the marine transport. The registrations, through the www.portxl.org site, will be opened until on February 15, 2016 and the program will have beginning the next month.
"With PortXL - the financial director of the Port of Rotterdam has explained Authority, Paul Smits - we strengthen the ecosystem ulteriorly face to the innovation of our port and can discover start-up. Connecting the starts-up with relief companies we introduce to them in an immense net of experts of the field. With this project we attract a greater number of innovative activities in the E region show this that our port of world-wide level has to offer. After all the - it has emphasized Smits - innovation he is fundamental. We want to be smart and the more innovative port of the world".
Al project, that it will be centralized on ten sturt-up, collaborates with the Harbour Authority international companies as EY, Cambridge Innovation Center/Venture Cafe, Van Oord, Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, Heineken, Innovation Quarter, Rabobank Count/First Dutch, Vopak, Damen, E.ON and Boskalis.
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