SEA Europe wishes a slackening of the restrictions that return the access the USA for the European ship yards at the market difficult



Some days before a delegation of SEA Europe, the association that represents the ship yards and the suppliers of equipments for the marine field of Europe, has gone to Washington in occasion of the twelfth round of negotiates in order to put into effect a partnership ocean-going liner on commerce and investments (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States. Scope of the mission has been that to introduce shipbuilding the European to the operators and the USA institutions, to better know the restrictions in the marine field applied in the United States and in order to characterize new opportunity of market with the objective to create increase and occupation for both the sides of the Atlantic.

SEA Europe has remembered that the current American norms, that they preview protezionistiche measures, return the access the USA for the European ship yards at the market very difficult. The association refers in particular to Jones Act, the law introduced in the Twenties of the slid century based on which all the mercantile ships that transport goods between the ports and landings place situated in the United States must fly a flag of the United States, being of property of citizens of the United States, to embark marine Americans and must be constructed in the USA ship yards. SEA Europe has emphasized that this law is profitable very difficult, if not impossible, for the European naval producers to construct and to repair destined ships marine at the market national of the United States.

According to SEA Europe, the consequences of such restrictions do not have only an impact negative on the European companies, but also on the Americans. The European association has evidenced that today in the United States the activities of shipbuilding in the civil field are almost disappeared to cause own of the competition lack. Moreover SEA Europe has emphasized that in the USA the transport of the goods happens mainly via earth, above all via truck, and this determines a remarkable congestion on the roads of the United States and an impact negative for the atmosphere.

Therefore, for SEA Europe, a slackening of the American restrictions in marine field will have the effect to create puts up business opportunity and of occupation it is for the industry of the European shipbuilding that American. Moreover the European association considers that the United States would make sure also the best one approached the advances European technologies and equipments in marine field, a modern and sustainable naval production and to a specialized know-how-how.

"We - the head of the delegation of SEA Europe has explained, Hans Voorneveld - wish that the American negotiators of the TTIP seriously take in consideration our point of view and our demands for the best one approached at the market of the United States of which the sides of the Atlantic Ocean will benefit both. We are very happy - he has specified Voorneveld - of having the full support of our European commissioners to the Commerce and the Transports in defending our case in the within of the TTIP".