Armateurs de France proposes a Decalogue for the development of the economy of the French sea



The French shipowners have introduced their prescription for a sustainable increase of national the marine economy. In the course of the shareholders' meeting of the association Armateurs de France, held yesterday to Paris, the shipowning organization has introduced own Objective strategic document "2025: route towards the blue increase", in which it proposes a Decalogue for the development of the shipping French and in which it evidences as a fleet clapper French flag is essential for strategic independence and the economic infuence of France.

Armateurs de France remembers that the economy of the transport and of the marine services represents beyond 100 thousand places of work in France, of which 22 thousand directed, between marine and personal of earth, and 80 thousand indirect, between shipping agents, insurers, society of classification, etc Moreover - the strategic document of the association still remembers - if world-wise the marine transport serves almost 90% of the total commercial exchanges and to European level it enlivens 60% of the transports, the shipping very guarantees 78% of the French imports.

According to the French shipowners, the first steps in order to promote industrial politics that allow to give impulse to the French fleet and to the national occupation begin with the creation of a strategic fleet and the support to the development of industrial districts and with modest of the devices of support to the investments supplying them of a public guarantee or of fiscal incentives the faces to the creation of a sustainable fleet and a flag and an attractive labor market.

The third and fourth point of the Decalogue proposed from the association previews to favor mobility of the marine French with the reform of the fiscal and social system and to modernize the marine labor law on board introducing improvements of the rest and working hours.

The fifth point advises to a engagement more wide breath to the aim to return France one of the nations leader in the international and European organizations, while sixth it proposes to start a reflection process on the institution of the European flag and seventh to so adopt objectives of reduction of the emissions of co2 of marine transport (- 30% within 2030) as adapted the technical and normative instruments.

Last the three garnishments of Armateurs de France propose the adoption of a plan of energetic transition, addressed in particular towards the liquified natural gas, to develop the marine services to the aim to promote a field of activity to high added value and to mobilize the international community in order to prevent piracy and terrorism against the ships.

"Our field - new president of Armateurs de France, Jean-Marc Roué has thwarted, that he is elected yesterday by the assembly - is strategic because it finds in the middle of competences that they cross all the marine economy: brokers, lawyers, banks, cluster, etc To establish a row logic - he has found - represent a logic and necessary consequence for vitality and independence of the French economy. For this reason the field of the transport and the marine services, besides that already it exists, needs more than ever of instruments of financing dedicated to the competitiveness. Without effective financings not there are ships. No ship, no marine one. The French fleet - it has emphasized Roué - must be constantly renewed, to the aim to remain young and modern to advantage of the occupation and its impact on the atmosphere".

"To develop to a mercantile fleet clapper French flag - it has added Marc Etcheberry, that of the shipowning association is named vice-president - a resource for our Country to many levels constitutes: in order to guarantee independence of supplyings of the nation and its infuence to international level, for a better protection of the atmosphere and the greater safety of navigation and for the wealth generated for the national economy".