The European Commission, with the implementing regulation of the 6 June, re-identified the Egyptian port of Port Said East and the Moroccan port of Tanger Med as ports of transshipment of neighbouring containers, i.e. ports excluded from the Definition of ports of call of the European Regulation 1805/2023 of 13 September 2023 on the use of renewable and low-energy fuels carbon emissions in shipping. The regulation 1805/2023 recalls that the increase in expenditure for ships that meet the requirements of the Regulation exacerbates the risk of circumvention of the rule and that the calls of ships of the "elusive" type in ports outside the European Union and the relocation of transhipment activities to ports outside the Union will only reduce the environmental benefits resulting from the internalisation of the cost of emissions from maritime transport activities, but could lead to additional emissions due to the additional distance traveled by ships to circumvent the application of the regulation. The 2023 Regulation therefore highlights the opportunity to exclude from the concept of "port of call" some stops in non-Union ports.

According to Article 2(2) of the European Regulation 2023/1805, a port must be listed as a port of transhipment of neighboring container if it meets two criteria. Firstly, the Port container transhipment share, measured in containers TEU, must exceed 65% of the total container traffic of that during the last twelve-month period. Secondly, the port must be located outside the Union, but less than 300 km from the nautical miles from a port under the jurisdiction of a State member. In addition, ports located in a third country that applies effectively equivalent measures to European Regulation 2023/1805 they must not be listed as container transshipment ports Its neighbors.

The regulation of last June 6 recalls that the Port Port Said East is located less than 300 nautical miles from a port below jurisdiction of a Member State and that the transhipment share of Egyptian port containers exceeded 65% of total traffic of containers from that port during the last twelve-month period. In addition, Egypt does not apply measures equivalent to the Regulation European Championship 2023/1805 for this port. The port of Tanger Med is also is located less than 300 nautical miles from a port under the jurisdiction of a Member State and the transhipment share of Moroccan port containers exceeded 65% of traffic total container of that port during the last period of twelve Months. Morocco also does not apply measures equivalent to the Regulation EU 2023/1805 for this port.