Current trend of the technology :
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Strong R&D activity and business increasing
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Active research and first emerging business
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Work in progress
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Decreasing R&D activity
Constellation and synergies of various (far-)offshore economic activities, such as renewable energy generation (wind, solar, wave,...), energy storage, aquaculture, desalination, marine research, security, etc.
Today, multi-purpose offshore platforms do not yet exist. Only a few calls for tenders have been launched in Europe, e.g. Marseille harbour for offshore bunkering. Bunkering is the supplying of fuel for use by ships and includes the shipboard logistics of loading fuel and distributing it among available bunker tanks.? The consortium C-NERGY conducted a feasibility study with a view to creating offshore islands on the Belgian coast.
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