Contribution of the European marine cluster to the medium term review of politics EU for the shipping



The European industry of the shipping, in order to develop themselves and to generate ulterior value for the economy of the EU, needs being able to count on a stable and expectable picture fiscal and normative, of characterized labor, a reduction of the administrative burdens and the removal of the customs obstacles let alone of an ulterior facility of the commercial exchanges by the institutions of the European Union.

The main indications that the European and international associations of the marine transport have addressed to the EU commission which they contribution in the picture of the review of medium term of politics of the marine transports of the European Union until 2018 and the perspectives for the 2020 demand last june from the Council of the EU to the Commission are these. Associations ECSA (European Community Shipowners' Associations), CLIA (Cruise Lines International Association), ECASBA (European Community Association of Ship Brokers and Agents), ETA (European Tugowners Association), EuDA (European Dredging Association), Interferry and WSC (World Shipping Council) have decided to send their contribution in occasion of the European Shipping Week 2015 that celebrates this week.

"The marine transport - the seven associations have remembered - is a total industry that must tackle to more and more trained competition. The shipowners - they have explained - need a stable and expectable communitarian regime fiscal and of a normative picture in compliance with the international norms to the aim to maintain their competitiveness and to guarantee a beneficial impact of the marine transport on the economy and the European society, also maintaining parity conditions to total level. These international norms, included those environmental ones and on safety, than for being total must be adopted from the International Maritime Organization, would have to promote the highest standards than quality for world-wide the marine transport, online with the interests of our industry".

According to ECSA, CLIA, ECASBA, ETA, EuDA, Interferry and WSC, the European Union would have to under investigation resume own positions on the sustainability of the shipping. "The marine transport - they have emphasized in the combined declaration revolt to the EU commission - is the form more efficient than commercial transport since it produces much to less emissions for ton/kilometer respect to other modalities and transports all over the world about 90% of the goods. Concerning the emissions of co2 - they have found the associations - lungi the being the main cause of the problem, the shipping is and must be considered as part of the solution. Transferring more goods and passengers towards the sea the EU could take advantage of advanced energy efficiency of the marine transport and reduce the total emissions of co2. The field of the marine transports does not rest on the bay leaves and is actively pursuing the reduction of its carbon footprint let alone those of other gas emissions, as for example sulfureous anhydride and nitrogen oxides, but, in order to make it in effective way, the environmental norms of the European Union would have to be online with those to total level".

Moreover ECSA, CLIA, ECASBA, ETA, EuDA, Interferry and WSC have explained that the industry of the marine transport needs qualified labor: "in lack of a new generation of marine and earth staff - they have found - the entire marine cluster risks to lose its know-how-how. The main objective - they have rimarcato - must be the improvement of the ability to attraction of the marine profession, that it can be reached, among other things, through the reduction and the simplification of the administrative formalities and the fight against the risk of criminalizzazione of the marine ones as a result of incidents in sea or against the discriminatory restrictions in the permissions to come down to earth".

The seven associations have evidenced moreover that the home market of the EU "has not still expressed all its potential one regarding the shipping since they continue to being you anticipate in all Europe meaningful administrative burdens and customs obstacles that prevent to the EU to collect yield of a truly European space of the marine transport, without barriers. The customs procedures - they have observed - are onerous and place the marine transport in disadvantage position respect to other modalities of transport, with consequent enormous loss of productivity and useless accentuation of stress on the marine professionals".

For ECSA, CLIA, ECASBA, ETA, EuDA, Interferry and WSC, the European Union the liberalization of the commercial exchanges must also get ahead, as - has specified - "the agreements of free exchange are mutual favorable for the European Union and the field of the marine transports as they guarantee the pr0sperity of the Union being based on services offered from the field. Therefore - they have specified - he is fundamental to maintain the sea open sure and to eliminate all the threats of piracy and armed assaults that put to risk the human life and the total logistic chain".

The seven associations speed up also the institutions of the EU "to guarantee a distribution more efficient than adapted systems for the refusals produced from the ships in all the ports of the marine Union and to inside facilitate the circulation of the coming ones from third-country of the Schengen area, let alone other measures that allow with the field of the cruises and other fields of the shipping to continue to promote the sustainability of the coastal communities through the commerce and marine tourism".

At last ECSA, CLIA, ECASBA, ETA, EuDA, Interferry and WSC have restated their worry for the gravity of the crisis of the refugees and migrants who cross the Mediterranean, that he involves a consisting increasing and loss of human lives. "The field - they have specified - will not be able to never stave off to its obligation to assist any person in serious danger in sea. However it is necessary to recognize that, although their more deserving efforts, the crews of the ships are not trained in order to lead humanitarian operations and that the ships insufficient are equipped in order to assist tens or hundred of people in difficulty, between which women and children. The European Union and the Member States - they have emphasized the associations of the shipping - must find a solution to this more and more serious crisis and to adopt measures in order to guarantee that the migrants recovered in sea can be disembarked at the first opportunity possible, so that they can have the suitable and necessary cures and humanitarian and medical the support in the best possible conditions, and these - they have found - are available single earth. It would have to be taken note that, as in the case of piracy - they have concluded ECSA, CLIA, ECASBA, ETA, EuDA, Interferry and WSC - to the field of the marine transports would not have to be assigned tasks and attributed initiatives that would have to be exclusive prerogative of the governments and the international organisms".