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international the European shipowners invite to liberalize the transport of goods between the Chinese ports
Verhoeven (ECSA): "to remove this discriminatory restriction it will offer advantages also to China"
October 31, 2014
The association of international the European shipowners has exhorted to liberalize the transport of goods between the Chinese ports. Taking part to the eleventh meeting of performance of the agreement on marine transports EU-China, than one has held from the 20 on 22 October near the Toilets Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation Chinese, the general secretary of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA), Patrick Verhoeven, has said that "the essential point for the European shipowners in these negotiations for the marine field is that at the market to eliminate the barriers of access of international the marine transport".
Speaking on behalf of the European delegation of the field, Verhoeven it has remembered that "last year the Chinese government has begun a promising project pilot of zone of free exchange to Shanghai that is previewed to extend to other ports. But - emphasized - the companies of navigation of foreign property are not still authorized to the international transportation of goods between the Chinese ports. Only the ships that I am in last of property of a Chinese society can make it, even if they fly foreign flag. To remove this discriminatory restriction - it has found Verhoeven - will offer advantages also to China, as it will not only bring an increase of the entrances and I use more efficient of the Chinese ports, but will reduce also transit Time and the shipping charges from and for the nation".
In the course of the meeting the association of the European shipowners has raised ulterior relative issues to the taxation, to practical the commercial ones, the harbour taxes, the norms on navigation and the services of regulation of the marine traffic let alone on the procedures for the exit visas and of transit.
The agreement on marine transports EU-China has been undersigned in 2002 and has taken effect in 2008. The twelfth meeting of performance of the understanding will hold 2015 in Poland in September.
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The association of international the European shipowners has exhorted to liberalize the transport of goods between the Chinese ports. Taking part to the eleventh meeting of performance of the agreement on marine transports EU-China, than one has held from the 20 on 22 October near the Toilets Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation Chinese, the general secretary of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA), Patrick Verhoeven, has said that "the essential point for the European shipowners in these negotiations for the marine field is that at the market to eliminate the barriers of access of international the marine transport".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
