NS HyMaP First Members Meeting : 10 December 2020

The North Sea  Hydrogen Ports and Maritime Community (NS HyMaP) will hold its first Members Meeting on Thursday 10 December at 3.30 CET/ 2.30 GMT virtually through GoToMeeting.    NS HyMaP was established as an Information Exchange after the Second Hydrogen Ports and Maritime Conference held in Brussels in February 2020.   The aim of  the Members Meeting is to move NS HyMaP on from an Information Exchange to a membership based association.

The Mission Statement for NS HyMaP 

The North Sea Hydrogen Ports and Maritime Community (NS HyMaP) is a membership based association that promotes the increased use of hydrogen in the ports and maritime sector in the North Sea as an effective and efficient way of achieving climate neutrality in one of the EU’s most important maritime regions.”

NS HyMap will provide a platform for the North Sea ports, maritime and hydrogen sectors to:

• Stimulate debate and joint working to promote hydrogen production, storage and applications in the ports and maritime sectors
• Develop a research and innovation agenda that will promote an effective and efficient hydrogen value chain
• Provide an Information Exchange on a broad range of issues of mutual interest to these industries including research, regulations and scaling up of hydrogen production, storage and applications.
• Represent Members’ interests in the development of policies at EU, IMO and North Sea State levels.
• Identify project opportunities and advise on project applications and their implementation.

Currently, NS HyMaP has a broad range of Members in the North Sea Region drawn from the hydrogen, ports and maritime sectors, local and regional authorities, consultancies and academia.

The Meeting will begin with a presentation from Lionel Boillot of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Joint Undertaking (FCH-JU.)  The Meeting is open to all existing members and those organisations wanting to know more about the Community.  Further details are available from Jon Jordan at [email protected]