Alice Krekt.
Programme director at Deltalinqs Climate Program.
Deltalinqs promotes common interests of over 95% of all logistic, ports and industrial enterprises in the Rotterdam port area. Over 700 companies from fourteen different sectors joined the association of entrepreneurs. Together they account for 6.2% of the Dutch Gross National Product (€21Bn). They provide work, either directly or indirectly, to over 385,000 people. Deltalinqs strives to strengthen Rotterdam’s competitiveness, sustainable growth and social and political acceptability for all activities within the port and industrial area; all for the benefit of our members.
The Deltalinqs Climate Program (DCP) consist of private and public partners, that cooperate in reaching the Paris Climate Agreement objectives. By initiating concrete projects in industry and logistics, the partners work on three themes: energy efficiency, sustainable fuels and sustainable resources. Within these three themes DCP’s role is to connect the right parties, inform and inspire these parties and start innovation projects.
Alice has over 20 years’ experience in the port strategy and development. She worked, amongst others, at Port of Rotterdam and Arcadis N.V.. Both in the Netherlands and international she lead teams that made concrete steps towards investment decisions, for instance in Brazil on inland waterway transport, in Indonesia with UN Habitat, and in several ports in the Netherlands.