THETIS MRE 2014
We were wined and dined royally over the course of the visit and both the restaurant on one evening and the official reception (held in the Cite de la Mer maritime museum) on another were particularly memorable – the visit to a wonderful bar in Cherbourg we were taken to later that evening/early morning by our hosts was memorable too they said... but I don’t remember a thing!
JOIE DE VIVRE
I think that neatly describes my experiences over the days of the Thetis conference and exhibition. There was an overwhelming feeling of being welcomed warmly and wholeheartedly – a joy to work in that sort of atmosphere.
UK/FRANCE COMPARISONS When listening to the many local/national government dignitaries I noted that the word ‘Europe’ was always mentioned before ‘France’ even though as we know the French are extremely patriotic.
I could not help comparing this attitude to similar gatherings in the UK – pretty much the opposite is true. UK this and UK that and Europe is usually mentioned with disdain!
COLLABORATION
When you look at the size of the projects involved and the global importance of our industry to all of the European countries and its peoples' collaboration is everything. I believe that France gets that spot on.
Regions, local governments and national government are working together to make things happen – collaboration has been taken to new heights. Through the information gleaned from the conference and exhibition we witnessed vast projects in France at their very early stages of development but it would not be surprising in future to find those projects overtaking those of the UK because of the co- operation of everyone involved.
Ports of Normandy Authority (PNA) UBIFrance
EDITOR’S NOTE We are at present planning a major feature, with the help of both UBIFrance and PNA, on the region of Normandy and its ports in much more detail in a future edition with follow ups on interesting organisations/ companies relevant to the industry
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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