SMU and Copenhagen Business School collaborated to offer the Maritime bachelor’s programme, after Singapore’s Minister of Transport Lui Tuck Yew and then Danish Minister of Business and Growth Ole Sohn signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding “green shipping” in 2012. Henrik Sass Larsen (Social Democrat), current Minister of Business and Growth in Denmark, said that a nation should focus on education and the environment in order to withstand competition in the fight for the position as leader in the maritime field.