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European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program will fund Current Direct, a new research and innovation project aiming to halve the cost of today’s marine battery electric drivetrains.

Greece’s shipping minister, Ioannis Plakiotakis, sent a letter to the European Commission, urging for the charterers to pay for the upcoming European maritime carbon scheme (ETS).

An international consortium of 46 partners led by the Belgian Port of Antwerp will receive a €25 million grant from the European Horizon 2020 programme to showcase concrete solutions for reducing GHG emissions while safeguarding competitiveness in European ports. 

EMSA issued its outlook for 2021, focusing on the main steps the Agency plans to take, in order to deliver its multi-annual strategic objectives based on the information contained in the Single Programming Document (2021-2023).

The European social partners for Maritime Transport, the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) and the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), advocate the enhanced participation of women in European shipping.

Shipping players issued a joint letter to the European Commission urging to promote the use of green hydrogen and ammonia by ships as part of its upcoming maritime fuel law.

The US now havs a shipyard capable of recycling ships according to European Union standards. Namely, International Shipbreaking received EU Ship Recycling Regulation (EU SSR) accreditation for its site in Brownsville, Texas.

The Clean Shipping Alliance expressed its opposition to the vote of the Transport Committee of the European Parliament that encourages EU Member States to restrict open-loop Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS), claiming this was taken "without any scientific basis".

The Transport Committee of the European Parliament adopted Thursday the Delli Report on more efficient and cleaner maritime transport, which calls on the Commission, among others, to address the carbon intensity of fuels under the FuelEU Maritime initiative. 

With shipping accounting for 76% of the EU’s external trade, the value of shipping to the European economy cannot be underestimated. This was the message of European shipowners with respect to the launch of the European Commission's Trade Policy Review, last week, setting a new course for a stronger EU role globally.