ESPO signs an agreement of strategic cooperation with the European crocieristiche associations



Today, in the course of the crocieristica fair Seatrede Med in development to Barcelona, the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has signed an agreement of strategic cooperation with the European crocieristiche associations Cruise Baltic, Cruise Europe, Cruise Norway and MedCruise with the objective of giving greater importance to the European industry of the cruises and the ferries near Brussels.

the understanding previews that the association of the European ports intensifies own efforts which official voice of the harbour field of the cruises and the ferries near the European institutions and that in the within of the same ESPO is instituted a net of the crocieristici ports and fleeting that reunites is the four associations Cruise Baltic, Cruise Europe, Cruise Norway and MedCruise who the representatives for the field of the cruises and the ferries of the harbour authorities. Such net will be considered a fleeting extension of the ESPO committee and it will meet periodically in order to discuss about the last relative developments of communitarian politics to the harbour section of the cruises and the ferries and will define which interests must be safeguarded.

Moreover the understanding previews that ESPO engagements when necessary in a constructive debate with the associations that represent the crocieristiche companies and the others you leave yourself involved in the field of the cruises and the ferries and in the study of the possible collaborative synergies. The association of the European harbour authorities will develop, with Cruise Baltic, Cruise Europe, Cruise Norway and MedCruise, also a Code of Good Practice for the ports of the European Union in which they land ships from cruise and ferries. Such job will be based on that in this field which got ahead from the ESPO commission fleeting and it will develop it with the contribution of the experience of the crocieristiche associations.

Isabelle Ryckbost, general secretary of the European Sea Ports Organisation, has declared "much satisfying of the taken decisions today. The traffic of the cruises and the ferries - it has found - is a segment of more and more important market for the European ports and involves specific challenges for the harbour authorities. The activity of the cruises and the ferries in harbour within cannot but be isolated from the traffic of the goods. It is therefore important that ESPO holds account of both and is profitable possible to have an approach integrated in defining the common positions of the harbour authorities on the relating political issues".

"On behalf of our ports 115 members - the president of Cruise Europe, ichael McCarthy has asserted - I am trusting that this agreement of strategic cooperation will increase the collaboration with the crocieristiche companies and the association whom it represents to them and will contribute in sustainable and mutual favorable way to the continuous increase of the success of the field of the cruises".

"All the organizations - it has observed president Cruise Norway, Ingvar M. Mathisen - would have to concentrate on own "Core business" rather than to look for strategic alliances and partnership with other organizations with complementary focuses and competences. With the subscription of this agreement of strategic cooperation, ESPO will have to place attention to the being concerned issues of politics the activity of the cruises and of the ferries to European level from the point of view of the ports and this it will allow with Cruise Norway to concentrate itself on the marketing society that we would have to be for the benefit of our shareholders. This agreement will diminish the job duplications, will allow a saving of resources in terms of time and money having supplied turned out better".

For the president of MedCruise, Stavros Hatzakos, "this initiative is clearly a sign of the engagement of the crocieristici ports and the investments in effective alliances. It is also - it has added - a step important in order to improve the rappresentatività of the crocieristici ports. With a sharing of the acquaintances and competences the associations and the ports will get ahead the interests of the crocieristici ports and the best possible practical in the more opportune way Will be able also to supply a meaningful contribution in the arguments with the political responsibles and the interested parts. MedCruise is ready to a strategic collaboration to service of the perspectives and the sustainable increase of the field of the cruises".