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the Spanish government announces a package of measures in order to increase the competitiveness of the ports and the harbour companies
It includes a review to the decrease of the harbour taxes and the elimination of the obstacles to the supply of harbour services
June 13, 2013
The Spanish minister to the Development, Ana Pastor, has announced that its ministry under consideration has a package of measures that will have the scope to facilitate the companies that take part of the harbour system so that they reach own objectives and to allow with the ports to increase their competitiveness it is in terms of infrastructures that of relationship quality/cost.
Ana Pastor has specified that between these measures figure a review to the decrease of the amount of the harbour taxes, that he will be realized so as to not to compromise the self-sufficiency of the Harbour Authorities. A second measure will be the abolition of the barriers to the supply of harbour services that - it has emphasized the minister - undermine the ability competitiveness of the enterprises of the field. At last a review of some conditions that discipline the state property concessions in vigor in the ports to the aim to reduce the difficulties from the financial point of view and to promote the competitiveness, for example in the cases will be carried out in which the volume of revenues it is not that attending.
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