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For the port of Rotterdam the new proposed EU on the ports will generate useless procedures and will provoke delays
Under accusation the previewed institution of an independent supervisor for the ports
May 23, 2013
One of the first reactions to the new proposed legislative in introduced harbour matter today from the EU commission ( on 23 May 2013) it has been that of the harbour community of Rotterdam, port that is wide European leader for volume of goods enlivened with a traffic that in 2012 has reached the quota record of beyond 441 million tons regarding 184 million tons enlivened from Antwerp, according to European port for traffic volume.
According to the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam and Deltalinqs, the association of the harbour and industrial enterprises that operate in the Dutch port, the proposal of the EU commission to institute in every Member States an independent supervisor for the ports risks to generate the creation of procedures useless and to provoke delays. This supervisor - they have found the Port of Rotterdam Authority and Deltalinqs - would have among other things to control procedures in the ports between which those in order to establish the entity of the harbour taxes and those for regulating the access at the market.
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