What is the BlueInvest Project Pipeline?
See our showcase of innovative projects and entrepreneurs who are shaping the Blue Economy.
Projects consist of innovative, scalable and sustainable business ventures from traditional and emerging sectors of the maritime economy.
The graphs below provide an overview of the country distribution, sector, and TRL of projects currently listed in the BlueInvest Project Pipeline.
Selection Criteria:
Your company is EU-based or from an eligible sea basin region (Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Mauritania, United Kingdom, or Norway)
Your project TRL is 4 or higher
Your project sector is in one of the 10 blue economy sectors identified for this initiative
Your solution has a clear sustainable impact on the blue economy
Your project is looking for investment
Project Country
Country in which the project is being developed and / or implemented.
Project Sector
Main blue economy sector the project relates to.
Project TRL
Current technology readiness level of the project.
res maritimae UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Dr. ULRICH MALCHOW started his career as a shipping trainee in the liner division of Hapag-Lloyd AG in Hamburg. Subsequently he studied naval architecture and mechanical engineering at the University of Hamburg and later at the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH Aachen).
Following his studies, he joined the Thyssen group of companies as a management trainee. In parallel he obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Berlin. At Blohm+Voss as one of the group's shipyards Ulrich rose to head both the sales and projects department for merchant vessels and mega yachts.
After leaving the shipyard he became managing director of Messrs. C.R. Eckelmann, the biggest barge operator within the port of Hamburg. Later Ulrich founded PORT FEEDER BARGE GmbH to design, develop and eventually operate the new type of a Port Feeder Barge for advanced container logistics within the port of Hamburg.
In 2011 Ulrich was appointed full professor at Bremen University of Applied Sciences for Maritime Economics at its Centre of Maritime Studies for 5 years.
Currently he serves as MD & founder of res maritimae UG and as a senior maritime consultant.
The high number of recent high profile incidents featuring container losses and fires on big containerships has drawn the attention on possible technical solutions to reduce the respective risks. The manual lashing work on deck of big containerships is very accident-prone. As all time for manual lashing worl is saved the port stay can be reduced, i.e. the speed at sea can be reduced while maintaining the schedule. Much fuel and resulting GHG can be saved.
Conventional cellguides on deck would not harmonize with the hatch covers as they would prevent them from being lifted. A simple but innovative design modification does allow the hatch covers to be lifted.