How it all began with “Rescue the Rhine”
MARINA DÜSSELDORF INNOVATIONS
Rolf Guest
Rolf Gast and Dick Gilles met in 2021 and it quickly became clear that they would tackle a new environmental protection project together. Rolf Gast gained his experience as a shareholder at CRUISING HOME in Harlingen, where he has been building exclusive houseboats for customers all over the world for over 7 years. His maritime and economic foundation is his own marina in Düsseldorf, where he lives and works.
The close economic ties to the Netherlands in the maritime sector against plastic pollution and the consequences of climate change for the maritime economy were the incentive for both partners to create new and sustainable products.
“Our idea is to develop our own products and natural solutions that mitigate the consequences of advancing climate change. We implement these investments with the help of committed companies so that we can offer them to other ports in the future. Our goal is to gain as many ports along the Rhine as possible so that the measures have an impact.”
Thanks to our partner Asahi Kasei Düsseldorf, the first plant islands with underwater ventilation can be viewed in the Media Harbor.