France@ Oceanology

The Business France Pavilion will showcase products, technologies and innovations from a variety of French companies at this year’s Oceanology International trade show at ExCel in London.

Oceanology International is the only event in Europe to target all marine sectors including exploitation, research, the offshore industry, instrumentation and geophysics.

Business France, the national agency promoting the French economy, will be organising the 180m² pavilion in partnership with the Méditerranée and Bretagne Atlantique “Pôle Mer” innovation clusters.

According to Pôle Mer, France’s maritime economy currently represents revenue of €53bn (£36.5bn) and employs 3000,000 people.

France has a maritime surface area of 11m km² and is keen to capture a significant share of expanding markets such as the extraction of marine minerals, marine energy, algae-based biofuels and aquaculture thought to be worth global sales of $450bn (£339bn) a year by 2020.

The event will run from 15-17 March.