the Danish Shipowners' Association denunciation that the bill EU on the ports does not change nothing and, indeed, risks to get worse the things



If the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) has not still expressed an opinion on the approval yesterday of the European Parliament of the bill on the access at the market of the harbour services and on the transparency financial institution of the ports ( of 8 March 2016), comment that however will not be able that to be of displeased for the lacked occasion rejecting a legislative text that the association of the European shipowners for a long time considers is distorted regarding the initial intention to liberalize the services harbour of the EU, us has thought the association of the Danish shipowners to manifest this regret.

"The regulations, whose initial scope was that to liberalize the ports of all Europe - have found the Danish Shipowners' Association - it is watered by the Parliament and, in the best one of the hypotheses, it will not make other that to maintain the status quo".

Remembering that this "is the third attempt of the EU commission to liberalize the harbour services and the arguments on this delicate argument they last give beyond a decade", the Danish association has expressed disappointment evidencing that not even this will not be the good time.

"From the point of view of the shipowners - it has emphasized the Danish Shipowners' Association - this document, unfortunately, little has or no impact on the market of the harbour services. The ports will have to be transparent in quality of public societies, but they will not be obliged to liberalize the harbour services. Consequently the shipowners will have to face still practical restrictive and barriers lawyers in many markets of the harbour services in Europe".

The association has observed that, "moreover, there are some elements of criticality in the report that they will have to be faced in the reunions of the trilogo between the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament before the definitive adoption. One of these is the specific reference to the challenges placed from the increasing dimension of the ships".

"Fundamentalally - it has found the director for the relations with the EU of the Danish Shipowners' Association, Simon Bergulf - the decision to invest in greater tonnage is and would have to remain commercial. The enclosed text in the report of the Parliament represents therefore a too much semplicistica vision of the problem. For the Danish Shipowners' Association it is fundamental that this rhetorical is not translate in political decisions apt to guarantee the ports ulteriorly and to hinder the access of the shipowners to the harbour services".