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Rolls-Royce Signs MoU with Baleària on LNG Conversion Project (Spain)

Action Plan for a Maritime Strategy in the Atlantic Area On 13 May, the European Commission (EC) adopted anAction Plan to revitalise the marine and maritime economy in the Atlantic Ocean Area. The Plan intends to show how the EU's Atlantic Member States (Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom), their regions and the Commission can help delivering growth, reducing the Atlantic area's carbon footprint, ensuring sustainable use of the sea's natural resources, setting up effective responses to threats and emergencies and implementing an ecosystem based management approach in Atlantic waters.Based on the EC'sAtlantic Strategy, the Action Plan is the result of consultations conducted through theAtlantic Forum. The Forum has enabled Member States, the European Parliament, regional and local authorities, civil society and industry to contribute to the development of the Plan. Beside traditional activities like fisheries, aquaculture, tourism and shipping the Atlantic area is also home to emerging ones such as offshore renewables and marine biotechnology. While individual Atlantic Member States are already active in these sectors and some have adopted their own respective maritime strategies, the Action Plan now encourages them to work together: to share information, costs, results and best practices as well as generating ideas ...

Ireland records another success on the Maritime Labour Package

Danish Ports support EU port proposal

74% of EU trade goes by ship Image Credit: Europa / ESPO, European Port Performance Dashboard, 2012Ports are gateways to the EU's entire transport network. They are engines of economic development and sources of prosperity. More cargo, cruise ships and ferries in our ports mean more jobs.Europe has three ports in the list of the wordl's 15 biggest ports: Rotterdam is the 11th biggest container port, Hamburg 14th, closely followed by Antwerp in 15th place.74% of EU trade goes by ship. Ports in Europe are directly connected to 848 ports in the Far East and 629 in Central and South America.37% of the total intra- EU exchange of goods (in tonne-km) goes through the EU's ports. Ports in the Mediterannean Sea handle the greatet amount of maritime trade exchanges between coastal regions in the EU, up to 28.4% of the freight volumes in tonnes.There are more than 17 million container units in the global container fleet. Projected increases in size for 2014 show the number of containers has more than quadrupled over the last 20 years.In 2012 some ships will have a capacity of 18,000 TEU. This is equivalent of a continuous lane of heavy goods vehicles from Paris to ...

EU, US, Canada launch Atlantic Ocean research alliance

EU Ports Policy Proposals: ESPO Wants to Safeguard Autonomy of Port Authorities

ECSA questions EC port initiative

The European Commission has today launched a new initiative to improve port operations and onward transport connections at 319 key seaports along Europe's coastline. The guidelines and legal changes being proposed will help port operators upgrade their services and facilities as well as giving them more financial autonomy.74% of the goods entering or leaving Europe go by sea, but one fifth of that amount currently passes through just three ports: Rotterdam, Hamburg and Antwerp. This imbalance between port performance results in congestion and extra costs for shippers, transport operators and consumers. The new proposals could save the European economy up to 10 billion by 2030 and help develop new short sea links.Vice-President Siim Kallas, European Commissioner for mobility and transport, said:"Our seaports are vital gateways, linking our transport corridors to the rest of the world. We already have some of the finest port facilities in the world. We need to keep them. But we are facing major challenges in terms of congestion, traffic growth and investment. More of our ports need to reach these high standards. The proposals today will bring Europe's port services into the 21stcentury, help attract investment and create jobs where they are most needed."More efficient portsThe ...

New directive on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations