Industrial Blog

Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and Environment) may be the competition on the Second Maasvlakte not stop, which the Industry Blog previously reported. All Ruler ECT does not settle for that and it goes to court.

The container company ECT requires the commissioning of the Port Authority terminal on Maasvlakte 2 postpones that ECT not have to pay for the widening of the Amazon port. To claim that ECT threatens force to a claim of 900 million euros. Report this RTLZ.

The indictment shows that the company unfairly handles feel in comparison to the terminals from 2014 on the Second Maasvlakte operate. For the newcomers were more favorable conditions.

Postponement of the commissioning of the new terminals would be impossible because the Port Authority’s existing contracts with customers other than unilaterally broken should be. ”

The Port Authority sees no reason why ECT is not for the adjustment of the Amazon port would have to pay. “That would be a major customer is not as old infrastructure can be adapted without the customer having to pay for something,” said the Port Authority in response.

In some regions, threatening entire engineering departments of schools to disappear. This is expected as the decline of students in technology education does not halt. Employers fear for the future of technical VMBO. Why they are today in The Hague, the bell went.

In a petition that employers united in VNO-NCV SMEs and the Netherlands, together with the foundation platforms VMBO offered to the House, the political action required to.

It’s a balancing act. Companies are desperate for technical personnel while fewer and fewer students going into the technical VMBO. Since 2004, the number of school pupils with an average of 30 percent. Reason lies mainly in the image problem that the engineering and technical training wrestle.
Continuing shortage

If nothing happens, creating a permanent shortage of engineers, according to the petition. In 2014 would involve over 38,000 technical vmbo students and more than 23,000 technical mbo.

Employers argue that there are more students and parents are encouraged to opt for engineering. They also propose a new ‘mixed’ for education, including secondary school techno.
Extra effort

Education minister Marja van Bijsterveldt shares the concern about the declining inflow and consult with fellow ministers and the business of “extra effort”. “Sufficient technically trained people are essential to a healthy economy,” said the minister at the receipt of the petition.

A quick solution to the debt crisis, such that economic tide. That tops the list of discussion topics the FME like the House wish to be treated.

The next two days in The Hague is the budget of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation on the political agenda.

On behalf of the technology industry, the FME some attention to the MPs sent. That the debt crisis of the number 1, is obvious.

The financial downturn is the main reason for that growth in the technology industry for the second half of this year at 0.6 percent continued stabbing. The first half year of 2011 growth was 6.9 percent, 80 percent of business attributes this to the debt crisis.

The dome of technology companies urge that the Hague therefore, when this economic downturn is not new to announce cutbacks.
Maxime Verhagen

The FME is optimistic about the government holding companies set policies. In particular, the emphasis on the earning power of the sector. The business organization asks the House than on the path to continue.

Eocnomische Affairs Minister Maxime Verhagen was previously announced that the government spends more than 700 million euros on research and innovation than in 2008. This message Engineersonline. In total, in 2015 nearly four billion euros in research and the search for new products and services possible.

It is therefore definitely a minister under the misconception that the tops of the government sector approach the end of the unbound science heralds.