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the ECSA has institute a specific group of contact for the naval fleet to service of the offshore industry
the quota EU of world-wide the offshore fleet is increased by 28% in 2005 to 37% in 2014
June 4, 2014
The association of the European shipowners has institute a specific group of contact dedicated to the field of the employed ships support from the offshore industry. The European Community Shipowners Associations (ECSA) has remembered that during the last few years this segment, one of the most specialized of the shipping that among other things includes the ships for it rests or the repair of cables and submarine conducts, the ships for the oil prospecting, the ships that carry out oceanographic searches and the ships that operate to offshore service of installations for the industry of the gas, the oil and wind energy, has grown of importance in exponential way. According to a recent relative study to the impact of the shipping on the economy of the European Union that is commissioned by the ECSA to Oxford Economics ( on 2 April 2014), the quota EU of world-wide the offshore fleet in terms of tons of tonnage is increased by 28% in 2005 to 37% in 2014.
The objective of the new group of sector contact is that to monitor the developments and the policies of the European Union that are important for the offshore industry, with the scope to assure that the voice of the societies that operate in the offshore field are listened to and that their interests debitamente are taken in consideration from the decisive ones of the EU.
"This group of sector contact, that it will be composed mainly by representatives of the companies - has explained the general secretary of the ECSA, Patrick Verhoeven - it is first of its genre and testifies desire of the ECSA to face also the specific problems of the segment. The success of this group of contact - it has specified - will establish if the ECSA will start similar initiatives in other specific fields of the industry".
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