Northern European countries join forces to stimulate Marine Industry - Naval News

To safeguard the aboriginal availability of naval materiel, the Northern Naval Shipbuilding Cooperation (NNSC) inaugural was created.

Naval News Staff 22 Nov 2022

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Participating nations are Denmark, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

During a broadside league of the NEDS matchmaking time connected 16-11-2022, this inaugural has been taken 1 measurement further. In the archetypal portion of this meeting, the representatives of the nations intelligibly defined a top-three of topics of involvement for cooperation:

• Advancement of shipbuilding concepts for modularity, interoperability, and harmonization of certification and standards;
• underwater warfare and seabed situational awareness;
• and aboriginal impervious propulsion, taxable to navy effectiveness and operational requirements.

During the 2nd portion of the meeting, the radical was complemented by the presidents of the nationalist defence manufacture associations. The topics that were defined successful the archetypal portion of the session, were presented to the manufacture representatives and were unfastened for discussion.

The archetypal enactment point for the nations is to further elaborate these 3 selected topics successful 1-pagers. This volition beryllium the ground for a store with industries (OEMs, SMEs) and probe institutes, during which roadmaps volition beryllium defined towards aboriginal cooperation.

Other issues to code are the elaboration of authorities ambitions and intentions and defining the governance of this initiative. In this regard, an important adjacent measurement is the drafting and signing of an MOU.