Jeonnam Province Completes Gwangyang Port Marine Fisheries Cluster... Expected to Create Blue Ocean Opportunities

[Muan=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Jeonnam Province announced on the 17th that the marine industry cluster project promoted at Gwangyang Port has recently been completed and is expected to contribute to the creation of a new marine blue ocean.

The marine industry cluster project, aimed at promoting the concentration and convergence of marine-related industries at the idle Jungma general wharf and Container Phase 1 Berth 4 of Gwangyang Port due to new port construction, underwent remodeling construction from 2018 to last year and was recently completed.

The marine industry cluster project was promoted to establish the idle wharf of Gwangyang Port as a shipping port logistics R&D test bed.

The national government, local governments (province and Gwangyang City), and Yeosu Gwangyang Port Authority invested 12.2 billion KRW in the project to build research and development centers related to shipping port logistics, as well as exhibition halls, performance testing rooms, educational facilities, and offices.

In particular, as a core project of the Gwangyang Port marine industry cluster, it is equipped with a smart automated port test bed along with the shipping port logistics R&D test bed.

With the establishment of a test bed cluster capable of convergence in the port logistics R&D field at Gwangyang Port, new added value creation in the port logistics industry is expected.

Currently, one institution has confirmed its move into the cluster, and Yeosu Gwangyang Port Authority plans to actively attract tenants through recruitment announcements in the future.

Kang Seong-woon, head of the Shipping and Port Division of Jeonnam Province, said, “With the completion of the Gwangyang Port marine industry cluster, we expect to achieve effects such as strengthening national competitiveness in port logistics and revitalizing the regional economy,” adding, “It is also expected to induce economic effects such as production and added value generation and employment, bringing vitality to Gwangyang Port, where cargo volume has decreased due to COVID-19.”

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