Commission boosts maritime manufacturing with new EU Industrial Maritime Value Chains Alliance

The maritime industry is a cornerstone of Europe's economic security and strategic autonomy, with a key role in safeguarding supply chains, ensuring defence readiness and supporting the clean and digital transitions. The alliance aims to bring together maritime manufacturers, shipowners and other downstream users, EU Member States and their regions, investors, and social partners. Its goal is to help strengthen Europe's maritime industrial and technological sovereignty in identified lead markets, notably segments with a potential to bolster Europe's maritime manufacturing capacity. The alliance will help to create business cases for scaling up production and deployment in market segments and technologies relevant for the EU manufacturing base and address the needs of the shipping, ports, and other segments of the maritime sector. In addition, this alliance will prompt targeted investment, public-private synergies and industrial collaboration towards joint action and concrete projects, while addressing market, trade and competitiveness challenges in a more comprehensive manner. A [call for applications](https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/maritime-industries/eu-industrial-maritime-value-chains-alliance_en) published today invites stakeholders to join if they comply with the eligibility criteria and commit to the objectives of the Alliance. The call will remain continuously open with a first cut-off deadline on 16 October 2026.

Publication date

2 September 2026

Author

[Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs](https://commission.europa.eu/about/departments-and-executive-agencies/internal-market-industry-entrepreneurship-and-smes_en)