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ECSA at the market restates the dissatisfaction for the lacked regulation the access of the harbour services
"However, after 15 years of negotiations - it has specified Verhoeven - now finally we have a first reads"
December 14, 2016
The association of the European shipowners has restated own dissatisfaction because the regulations proposal on the organization of the harbour services and on the transparency financial institution of the ports, that it is adopted today by the European Parliament ( on 14 December 2016), it has not resolved the topic of the access at the market of the harbour services with the liberalization which wished from the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA).
"the ECSA - the general secretary of the association has remembered, Patrick Verhoeven - has manifested in all the occasions own disappointment because this proposal at the market does not face some of the problems of access in the ports that the shipowners must face. However, after 15 years of negotiations - it has specified - now finally we have a first reads of the European Union on the ports and we would have to be based on this and to consider it as a first step towards a real freeway of the sea of which the ports they are essential element".
"We, above all for operators of the short sea shipping that they carry out frequent ports of call in the ports and for which, consequently, a greater efficiency of the harbour services are therefore extremely important - he has evidenced Verhoeven - we exhort the EU commission to complete now ulterior efforts in order to assure that this field can express its potential one".
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