Kaohsiung site to develop marine tech‘GREEN-COLLAR JOBS’: The Marine Technology Industrial Innovation Zone was designed to train an estimated 1,800 people per year to service offshore wind farmsBy Angelica Oung / Staff reporterGovernment officials yesterday inaugurated a center for developing oceanic resources in Kaohsiung, which Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) said would create an industrial cluster for the development of marine technology. The 6.7 hectare Marine Technology Industrial Innovation Zone (海洋科技產業創新專區) in Singda Harbor (興達港) is ready to start training people in the maintenance and repair of offshore wind farms, Chen said at the opening ceremony. Photo: Su Fu-nan, Taipei Times“By cultivating talent for the offshore wind power industry, the innovation zone would support the development of our renewable energy industry,” Chen said. “We have seen from other countries’ experiences that it is expensive to train skilled workers for the offshore wind farm industry,” Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said. The zone would also house a number of laboratories to develop marine technology, including a deep water pool for simulating offshore conditions to be completed in 2023, the MIRDC said in a statement.

Source: Taipei Times January 11, 2021 16:00 UTC