From now on, for marine and fisheries construction projects over 50 billion KRW, 'Test Construction Support Status' must be confirmed without fail

Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries Revises 'Guidelines for Utilizing New Technologies in Marine and Fisheries Construction Work'

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Joo Sang-don] From now on, when regional Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Offices issue marine and fisheries construction projects with a total construction cost of 50 billion KRW or more, a procedure will be established to mandatorily review whether to support trial construction.

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced on the 30th that it will implement the "Revised Guidelines for the Utilization of New Technologies in Marine and Fisheries Construction Projects," which focuses on this content to increase the utilization of excellent new technologies in the marine and fisheries construction sector.

Trial construction grants an opportunity to construct a portion of the project using new technologies, new methods, or patents that have no on-site construction performance, to verify their performance, with costs and appropriate space provided by the government.

The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has established operational guidelines and operated a trial construction support system since 2018 to resolve the vicious cycle where domestically developed technologies with high economic and technical value in the marine and fisheries construction sector were not demonstrated on-site and thus wasted, which in turn dampened investment enthusiasm for new technologies. However, since calls for proposals and reviews were conducted by the end of each year and support technologies could only be selected the following year, it took a long time to reach actual trial construction. As a result, despite the purpose of the system, trial construction support was limited to 4 cases of design progress and 4 cases of construction ordering procedures, showing limitations in activation.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries revised the operational guidelines to establish a procedure that mandates reviewing the possibility of supporting trial construction. After preliminarily investigating applicable new technologies following service ordering, and reflecting them in the design through consultation with the Technical Advisory Committee and review of new technology utilization, the construction will be ordered. The Ministry expects that this will not only expand trial construction opportunities but also enable faster support.

Along with this, the revised operational guidelines also established the basis for operating an information system (Open Marine Technology Plaza) to smoothly provide excellent new technology information. Accordingly, rights holders of new technologies can now promote their technologies without bearing costs. Those wishing to register can follow the registration procedures announced on the Port Technology Standards Information System website.

Im Seong-soon, Director of the Port Technology Safety Division at the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, said, "If opportunities for on-site demonstration of domestic new technologies in the marine and fisheries construction sector expand, new technologies with high economic and technical value are expected to overcome market entry barriers and compete fairly with existing technologies." He added, "Through this, we hope domestic technologies will develop into core technologies leading the overseas marine and fisheries construction market."

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