Port in transitionChallenges for Port City Developers

Isabelle Vries

Content

1. Port Development Retrospective

Port City = 1 system

Major steps: New Waterway

1st Industrial revolution

Major step: leap across the river

Major Steps

Adaptive

Major transitions

Shift to the West1945 - 1970

Shift to the West1970 -1985

Shift to the West1985 -1998

Port Out City In

Port Out City In

World wide: Port Out City in

Tradition of Planning

Invitation of the city (2015)

Reflections

2. Trends and developments

Scaling up

Low growth and competition

Automation & digitalisation, I-o-T

…have impact on type of labour

Power play on rescources…

.. have impact on industrial cluster

….have impact on whole region

Climate change

Transition paths

New industriesBiobased / circular economy

New industries: renewable energy

New industries: recycling off-shore platforms

New industriesDesigning and Making with new

technologies

Learn more about the port?

12 spots

3. Challenges for the World Port City

Transition of port clusters

Enhance added value for the city/region

Cross over with new industries

Innovation accelerators

Enhance netwerk of enterprises, educational institutes

More services and trading

Smart interdependencies Port City 1 system !

4. Challenges at the Port City interface

Starting point Stadshavens...

Stages ‘Stadshavens’ (City Ports)

Transition Stadshavens

Port City interface for new bussiness

Who is in charge ?

Communities of Practice @ Port City Interfaces

5. Challenges for port city developers

New business for the Port City requires:

Learn world wide

How to develop unprecedented Port City synergy?

Sum up

Port in transition, how to act?

Let’s design the future of our port…2050