Also from the nordeuropei shipowners a outcry of alarm for the dramatic impact of the crisis reaches on the field



In Europe they are not only the shipowning associations of the southern nations of the continent launch a desperate outcry of alarm for the calamitous impact that the adopted measures in order to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus are having on the navigation companies, in particular on those which they transport passengers, but also on the carriers that transport goods is for the reduction of the volumes of transported cargos, in particular of rotabili, is for the difficulties in managing the reciprocation of the crews and the operations of disembarkation and boarding of the goods in the ports.

In these days also the representations of the nordeuropei shipowners have marked with force the indefensible collision of the drastic decrease of the activity on their associates, mainly between those which services operate ferry for the islands of the Sea of the North and the Baltic Sea and that crocieristiche activities operate. "In Germany - the president of the association of the German shipowners VDR, Alfred Hartmann has explained - after the years of the crisis financial institution and after its restructure, sometimes painful, the field of the marine transport, at least the great part, had looked positively to the future. Now there are new and rest important for the associate companies". Specifying that it is still too soon in order to formulate accurate economic forecasts, since the continuous situation to change almost daily, Hartmann has specified that, "however, it can be already previewed that for some companies of navigation the reimbursement of the naval loans will turn out problematic. We comprise - it has specified the president of the Verband Deutscher Reeder - than at the moment the same banks cannot defer these payments without to incur in some difficulty. Therefore - it has evidenced Hartmann - it would be a lot important to find a mechanism quickly, as for example the credit institution for the KfW reconstruction (the institute created in the post-war period in order to manage the deep ones of the Marshall plan, ndr), so that these can be absorbed or covered".

Hartmann has emphasized the particular difficulty in which the companies of ferries are found that - it has remembered - have much staff and that now they must tackle to the total block of own activity. "Some of these companies of navigation, than generally are of small and medium dimensions - it has specified the president of the VDR - in the next weeks will have to face serious problems of liquidity, even if in the past they have operated in way much prudent one". Hartmann has evidenced also the extreme difficulty faced from the crocieristiche companies: specifying that it is still too soon in order to make reliable forecasts since the situation is too much volatil, it has perceived that "however during the last few years is feared that the capacity of the impact can be revealed seriates for every crocieristica company, although the good realized transactions".

Also the Norwegian Shipowners' Association (NSA) has denounced the gravity of the crisis, in the course of which - it has emphasized the general manager of the Norwegian shipowning association, Harald Solber - "we go to any length in order to do so as that our associates continue to operate in this extremely difficult situation". Solber has confirmed the particular seriousness of the crisis that has hit the companies of navigation engaged in the transport of passengers, that it has seen the arrest warrant total of the ships, has had to cut job five thousand places and has seen the entrances to vanish from the day to the night. The general manager of the NSA therefore has defined "incomprehensible" the reason for which by the measures of support announced in recent days by the government of Oslo for the field of the marine transport are left outside the navigation companies that they carry out international services and, in particular, between these, those which transport passengers. The Norwegian Shipowners' Association therefore has asked the government to introduce other measures that assure the possibility for the shipowning companies of having sufficient liquidity in order to face and to exceed the crisis.

Also the Swedish Shipowners' Association (SSA) has exhorted own government to launch measures of support to the marine transport, field - of the Swedish shipowning association has remembered vice-president, Anders Hermansson - than currently maintains in activity the vital net of transport necessary in order to carry the produced community essential, support without which - it has specified - it will not be able to continue to make it. So as the other associations of the field, the SSA has invited the government to preview public guarantees on the loans in order to assure the liquidity of the navigation companies, to reduce the cost of the labor and to introduce other urgent measures in order to avoid the collapse of the field.