Associated British Ports has joined the federation of the European private harbour terminalisti Feport



Associated British Ports (ABP), the main British harbour operator who possesses 21 harbour ports of call in the United Kingdom, ports that in the 2014 has enlivened a traffic of 94,5 million tons of goods and 2,9 million passengers, has joined the federation of the European harbour terminalisti Feport (Private Federation of European Ports Operators).

Manifesting satisfaction for the income of the important London group in the associative compages, the president of Feport, Gunther Bonz, it has emphasized that "ABP is a primary private harbour group of the United Kingdom that plays a meaningful economic role investing in infrastructures and therefore contributing to facilitate an immense range of activity. The associated private harbour operators to Feport - he has added Bonz - are investing massively, that is to say beyond 40 billion euros in the past decade, in order to modernize the European ports. We will continue to raise awareness the politicians of the EU about the role who we carry out".

"The private ports - the managing director of Associated British Ports has confirmed, James Cooper - play a fundamental role in facilitating the commercial exchanges in the United Kingdom and all Europe. He is vital to assure that politics can allow with these ports to continue to attract investments and to serve the customers. We are therefore pleased to join to Feport and to support its important job".

Yesterday to Brussels, while, the shareholders' meeting of the Feport in the course has held of which the will of the private terminalisti is confirmed to continue to invest in the improvement of infrastructures and the services on condition that she is they allowed to make it sintantoché can recover such investments, engagement - it has found Feport - that it is however more and more difficult to respect given the fast obsolescence of the equipments used from the companies in order to serve ships that are becoming more and more large. The federation therefore has invited the institutions and the others stakeholder to take note of the effects to cascade that the increasing dimension of the ships reversed on the entire logistic chain, effects and consequent costs in order to adapt and to construct to infrastructures and superstructures, in order to reorganize the force job and the logistic chain and in order to mitigate the environmental impact of all the necessary operations that - has found Feport - "they are becoming source of worry in a lowland context increase".

According to the federation it is therefore necessary that "the dialogue between the side earth and that sea beginnings now because - Feport has explained - this constitutes a primary option in order in such a way to manage the operating challenges along the logistic chain avoiding an ulterior not necessary regulation". "All the parts involved in the logistic and distributive chain - it has observed Bonz - are contributing to the economy of the EU and the creation of places of work and want to continue to make it. It is therefore important that the parts are confronted in order to assure that the decisions of some you leave of the chain do not turn out harmful for the competitiveness of the other enterprises of the European Union".