Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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The ICS renews the invitation to the Panama hat Canal Authority to send back the application of the plan of increase of the rates
The objective: to agree new a slowly tariff one to introduce when the project of expansion of the channel is completed at the end of 2014
July 13, 2012
The shipowning organization International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), if on one side it has appreciated the decision communicated 26th june from the Panama hat Canal Authority (the ACP) to send back to October 2012 and October 2013 the effectiveness of the increases of the rates for the transit of the ships in the Panamanian channel, from the other has expressed disappointment because - it has explained international the shipowning association - "the part of the points of the introduced initial proposal in our comments to the public consultation of May is not faced. In particular - it has specified the ICS - our observation about the fact that has not taken into consideration the impact of the increases previewed on the same companies of navigation or of the increases of other costs associated to it I use of the Channel of Panama hat, although the fact that many of the fields interested from the increase of the rates are still fighting in order to survive in a market weak person extremely".
ICS, in consideration of lasting of the crisis, therefore has renewed own introduced proposal last May ( on 28 May 2012) in which it asks the withdrawal for the plan of the tariff increases and has restated that the current revenues generated from the transits of the ships in the Panamanian channel are consisting and that not is some urgency from the economic point of view that justifies the proposed increases. "Alla Panama Canal Authority and to international the marine industry - he has emphasized the ICS - would have to be granted therefore to the time and the space in order to work together in order to develop a structure of rates that can go for the benefit of all the parts in the long term, to introduce when the project of expansion of the channel is completed at the end of 2014".
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The shipowning organization International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), if on one side it has appreciated the decision communicated 26th june from the Panama hat Canal Authority (the ACP) to send back to October 2012 and October 2013 the effectiveness of the increases of the rates for the transit of the ships in the Panamanian channel, from the other has expressed disappointment because - it has explained international the shipowning association - "the part of the points of the introduced initial proposal in our comments to the public consultation of May is not faced. In particular - it has specified the ICS - our observation about the fact that has not taken into consideration the impact of the increases previewed on the same companies of navigation or of the increases of other costs associated to it I use of the Channel of Panama hat, although the fact that many of the fields interested from the increase of the rates are still fighting in order to survive in a market weak person extremely".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
