the ports of the Northern European Range are contrary to an investment policy of the EU that better the competitiveness of the south-European ports



The Harbour Authorities of the Northern European Range defend with determination the necessity to invest the which put on economic resources of the European ports from the EU in those which they are the more efficient harbour ports of call, that is - second the harbour administrations of Amburgo, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bremen, Groningen, Moerdijk, Rotterdam and Zeebrugge - own in the ports of the Northern European Range and not in the ports in which such investments they could not have effect, ovverosia - always second the harbour authorities of the Northern Range - in the ports of the Mediterranean.

Taken unflinching cause of such of position expressed from the eight nordeuropee harbour authorities in a combined official notice is the presentation of a relationship of the European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion (ESPON) on the development and the scenes in the field of the transport in occasion of the ESPON Day that has held friday slid to Brussels, event in the course of which the issue of the allocation of the deep ones of the European program Connecting Europe Facility is debated.

Evidencing that the main institute in charge of the drawing up of the relationship of the ESPON is Spanish MCRIT, that it is founded in 1988 from engineers of the University of the Technique of the Catalogna, the Harbour Authorities of the Northern Range they explain that such relationship suggests European politics of investments in order to interconnect the cities of second level and in order to improve harbour infrastructures of the Mediterranean to the aim to facilitate the flows of containerized trade between Europe and Asia and that the relationship asserts that this would lead to a reduction of time, euro, emissions and polluting agents and would alleviate the congestion.

Draft of reliefs that they do not find at all agrees the harbour administrations of Amburgo, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bremen, Groningen, Moerdijk, Rotterdam and Zeebrugge: "the ESPON outcomes - they observe - clearly do not hold account of some associate-economic facts of base, of the dominant economic developments, the commercial and technological consolidation in the new shipbuilding generation of the naval one and the efficiency of the ports".

"The search lead in 2011 from the agency of independent search NEA (inforMARE on October 24, 2011, ndr) - the eight Harbour Authorities remember - concludes that the ports of the North represent the more efficient points of transit for the container transport towards great part inland of central Europe. The seven ports situated in the Europe North anticipate a volume of traffic of the greater container four times regarding that of the eleven main concurrent ports along the southern coast of Europe. The analysis indicates that the model of distribution based on these market shares is efficient and is explained with a persistent combination of economic and geographic factors. The analysis of the NEA - they emphasize Port Authority - is verified by the Institute of Transport and Maritime Managements of Antwerp".

According to the nordeuropee Harbour Authorities, "an investment policy centralized on the peripheral ports will determine therefore an insufficient return of the investments publics. Moreover this approach puts to risk the objectives of European White Paper on transports de 2011. The errors store clerks in the past in other fields - they find - would have to serve from lesson instead of being transferred to the field of the transport of the goods".

The eight harbour authorities of the Norther Range conclude evidencing that "the ports of north-western Europe are engaged for a strengthening of existing infrastructures and tried effectiveness for markets. When it is spoken about the expense of deep the communitarian ones - they find - a clear focalization on an European added value economically tried would have to prevail on relative considerations to geopolitics and politics of cohesion. Therefore, instead publishing more paper, the ports of western the Europe North would want to have an argument opened with the EU commission on the division of the financings in order to realize the more effective investments in infrastructures, also harbour".