Port of San Diego Pairs with Canada’s Ocean Supercluster for Ocean Innovation

SAN DIEGO一 On June 15 the San Diego Board of Port Commissioners approved a Memorandum of Understanding between the Port and Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, a private industry-led partnership focused on ocean sustainability. The MOU formalizes the relationship between the Port and OSC and focuses on collaboration and the sharing of resources while stimulating more Blue Economy projects in San Diego and in Canada. “The idea of the MOU is to actually stimulate more projects,” said Paula Sylvia, program manager for aquaculture and blue technology for the Port of San Diego. “Both of our organizations can share more ideas, can share company pipelines that are coming to us or through us and sort of grow our respective blue economy ecosystem. The MOU facilitates a larger role for both of our organizations to play a role in each other’s projects… On the front end it’s regular meetings and regular coordination between projects coming through their pipeline and coming through ours, so the regular meetings set up, facilitates communication on a regular basis and improves opportunities for deploying projects.” The Port began an informal informational partnership with Canada in 2017 after the first-ever Oceanography International conference where the Port gained a first look at sustainability practices...