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The European shipowners speed up urgent certainties on the commercial relationships United EU-Reign in sight of the Brexit
Audition near the Commission for transport and Tourism of the European Parliament
February 20, 2018
The association of the European shipowners has sped up that it is made as soon as possible certainty on the commercial relationships between the European Union and the United Kingdom to light of the decision of this last one to exit from the EU. "He is fundamental - it has emphasized this afternoon the general secretary of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA), Martin Dorsman, in the course of a on the impact of the Brexit on the marine transports - than the EU continuous to being a competitive region for the companies of marine navigation. This means parity of conditions and tightened United EU-Reign cooperation. We consider that the EU and the United Kingdom must become models as for the norms and to the international standards for the shipping and for the total commerce in general terms".
Evidencing that the time passes fastly and that the companies must be already located in a position to preparing themselves for the Brexit, the ECSA has placed the accent on three immediate priorities for the shipowners: marine traffic without obstacles between United Kingdom and EU, free circulation of marine, personal of earth and the passengers and maintenance of the free at the market internal access and to the offshore field.
The European shipowning association has remembered that currently the exports of goods and services of the EU in the United Kingdom have a value of 365 billion euros, that it means that 54% of the imports totals of the United Kingdom, and that the British exports of goods and services towards the EU is of 274 billion euros, pairs to 43% of the exports totals of the United Kingdom. Moreover the increase of the traffic goods from 1993 has been enormous and is gone up by a million truck in 1993 to four million truck in 2015. Between Reign Unito and Ireland the increase has been from 54.000 trucks in 1993 to 392.000 trucks in 2015.
"When to the frontier procedures - it has observed Dorsman - for the moment the ships can operate freely from and for towards the United Kingdom with a minim of administrative burdens. After the Brexit - unless the EU and the United Kingdom do not find an agreement practicable - it will be necessary a declaration of cargo together to other verifications and controls legacies among other things to the phytosanitary norms and on the control of immigration. This - it has emphasized the general secretary of the ECSA - would mean a heavy congestion in the ports lacking in sufficient space for the enormous number of truck and towings and the chains of just-in-Time supplying will become lost because of the congestion problems".
"Moreover - it has added Dorsman - we must guarantee the free circulation of the marine ones and the business staff. To marine of third-country employed on ships of the EU or the United Kingdom it would have to be guaranteed an easy access to the United Kingdom. We find moreover a lot important that both the parts continue to recognize the certificates of the marine ones to benefit are of the United Kingdom that of the EU".
Relatively to the third priority for the shipowners, that is that they would not have to be applied restrictions to at the market internal access and the offshore field, the ECSA it has remembered that in the 1849 United Kingdom it abolished all the relative restrictions to the flag and, as member of the OCSE, is obliged to hold open own international commercial exchanges to the free competition. "The home market of the United Kingdom - it has emphasized the European shipowning association - is opened to the ships of any flag and the same one is worth for markets of the EU. This mutual access at the market - it has concluded the ECSA - would have to be preserved".
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