New Maritime Safety Research Programme for the Dutch government

MARIN is committed to ensuring safe ships and preventing maritime accidents. The Dutch government has the same priorities and employs a wide range of control measures.

Both MARIN and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management have the ambition to become more proactive regarding the safety of ships and the context in which they operate through specific research and development.

On behalf of the ministry, MARIN has therefore started the Maritime Safety Research Programme with the aim of improving the safety level in the North Sea through applied research. An integrated approach is essential. A key reason for developing the new programme was the initial realisation that there were significant knowledge gaps that needed to be bridged in order to achieve the ambition.