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The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has decided an increase of 2% of the amount of the harbour taxes
They will remain in vigor a series of reductions in price
December 21, 2011
The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has decided beginning from to increase of 2% the amount of the harbour taxes next 1° January. "This - it has explained today the agency - is first time in three years that the port has adapted own taxes in order to hold the step with the inflation and it has only made it in light measure". Port Authority has remembered that in 2010 and the 2011 taxes they do not have quickly you increase and that, vice versa, selective they are diminished in order to answer to the determined bending of the traffic volumes.
"Now - it has found the harbour agency - political measuring of the taxes will allow among other things with the Harbour Authority to invest ulteriorly in a development of harbour infrastructures efficient and sustainable". "When draft to settle the level of the taxes - it has emphasized the managing director of the harbour authority, Eddy Bruyninckx - the Harbour Authority remains a strait partner of the harbour users. The offer of harbour taxes is realistic that attractive it remains to the base of our politics. Politics of the rates of the port are characterized by continuity and they do not give to consideration of daily character with sudden increases or reductions".
The Harbour Authority has specified that in 2012 it will continue to offer to a reduction in price of 10% on the harbour taxes to the ships with a Environmental Ship Index (ESI) at least 31 points and has announced that the next year such index, that is defined by the ports of Amburgo, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bremen, the Havre and Rotterdam, will be extended also to the endowed barges of engines with conformity CCR III (the third phase of relative standards to the emissions polluting of the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine), or certifyd CCR III, to which a reduction of 7% of the harbour taxes will be offered for the ports of call in the course of 2012. Moreover the reductions introduced in 2010 for the loose ships that transport goods that carries out disembarkation operations or boarding of the cargo to Antwerp will be applied also in 2012.
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The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has decided beginning from to increase of 2% the amount of the harbour taxes next 1° January. "This - it has explained today the agency - is first time in three years that the port has adapted own taxes in order to hold the step with the inflation and it has only made it in light measure". Port Authority has remembered that in 2010 and the 2011 taxes they do not have quickly you increase and that, vice versa, selective they are diminished in order to answer to the determined bending of the traffic volumes.
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