Maritime UK has responded to the Transport Select Committee's inquiry on Maritime 2050. Ranging across shipping, ports, services, engineering, and leisure marine industries, the Department for Transport leads the Government’s strategy for the maritime sector.
Maritime 2050: Navigating the future
The Department’s policy is framed by Maritime 2050: Navigating the future. Published in 2019, this Government strategy addresses seven top-level themes of competitive advantage, technology, people, environment, trade, infrastructure, security, and resilience.
Within each, there are further sub-themes with short-term, medium-term, and long-term targets. It has been supplemented by later documents such as the Maritime Recovery Road Map following the onset of the pandemic and the Clean Maritime Plan, an environmental route map. The Transport Committee has sought written evidence, particularly on:
- Whether and how the ambitions and objectives described in Maritime 2050 support the maritime sector
- Progress toward the ambitions and targets set out in Maritime 2050, including effectiveness, pace, and priority of the strategy’s implementation
- The effect of Maritime 2050 on Government policies and regulation, maritime sector decision making, and economic and environmental outcomes
