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for and against of the use of marine combustible the which liquified natural gas as
the EU commission has introduced the preliminary results of a specific study. The contribution of the shipping to the GDP of the EU is of 147 billion euros
March 3, 2015
Today the EU commission has introduced the preliminary results of a study on the perception of the risks and of the opportunities of I use it of the which liquified natural gas as fuel for the marine transport. The document evidences that the interested parts recognize the benefits for atmosphere of the use of such fuel type, but still is not convinced of the opportunity of its employment from the economic point of view.
The study takes in consideration politics of the European Union that has the objective to reduce the emissions produced from the marine transport and to search alternative energy sources, in forecast of an ulterior limitation of the heavy fuel use, and beginning from reassumes the recent legislations in matter the European directive on the sulfur tenor of fuel for marine use (2012/33), that it authorizes the use of the GNL as alternative fuel in order to satisfy relative the severeer standards to the emissions, let alone the directive on the infrastructure realization for alternative fuels (2014/94) that it aimed to guarantee a minimal cover of stations of refueling of GNL in the main European marine and fluvial ports, respective within 2025 and 2030, and to supply common norms for their planning and their use.
"This study - it has explained in charge of the logistic Unit the marine transport and of the EU commission, Sandro Santamato - offers panoramic a reliable one to us of the opportunities and the challenges that remain for the use of the which liquified natural gas for the shipping. What more important: the results help us to feeding a public debate on use it of the GNL for the marine transport and they offer arguments to us for a debate that involves the subjects interested to local level".
While, in occasion of the celebration this week of the European Shipping Week, the association of the European shipowners has introduced the results of a recent study of Oxford Economics on the economic value of the industry of the shipping of the European Union. The document emphasizes that the total contribution of the field to the Gross Domestic Product one of the EU has been pairs in 2013 to 147 billion euros. Moreover, every million euro that the European industry of the marine transport brings to the GDP of the EU generates other 1,6 million euros of value in other withins of the European economy.
The study of Oxford Economics precise that in the EU the field of the shipping appoints to a job 2,2 million people in the entire marine cluster and that between the 2004 and 2013 generated direct places of work from the field have recorded an increment of +25%. The document finds moreover that the last property of 40% of the world-wide fleet in terms of tons of tonnage resides in nations of the EU and that the fleet controlled from the EU has grown remarkablly: between the beginning of the 2005 and beginning of 2014 it is increased of beyond 74% in terms of tons of tonnage and 72% in terms of gross capacities in tons.
"Europe - the general secretary of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA has commented), Patrick Verhoeven - controls the greatest and more innovative fleet than ships. This aspect a lot important often is neglected although the fact that carries out a role key in the economic impact of our field on the European economy".
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