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National Legislation Needs to Align With Other European Countries says President of Hellenic Shortsea Shipowners Association (EENMA)

The President of Hellenic Shortsea Shipowners Association (EENMA), Mr Charalambos Simantonis, during the association’s annual ceremony, emphasized the need to harmonize national legislation to the standards of the other European countries, in order to create attractive and sustainable framework that will strengthen the activity of the Shortsea Shipping industry and lead to the renewal of the fleet.

Simantonis said that shortsea shipping “is ‘suffering’ in our country reflected in both the anachronistic legislative framework and the way in which our shipping administration is organized. While Greece has ratified all international conventions and continues, still it implement domestic legislation, which effectively cancels the international one, creating many problems for our ships and finally for domestic intra-transportation”.

Concepts such as “improving competitiveness” or “enhancing competitiveness” are very often mentioned in public, being a long-standing priority of national maritime policy. The question, however, is “what is the national policy for the development of inland transport, for the development of short sea shipping?”

Simantonis underlined this effort should be collective and requires cooperation between the state, the shipowners and the shipbuilders in order to achieve the common objectives, the development of shipping, the creation of new jobs, the construction of new ships.
Finally, he emphasized once again that “the Greek shipownership is unified, and maritime policy is drawn up, expressed and coordinated by the UGS, whose integral part is our own shortsea association”.
Source: Hellenic Shortsea Shipowners Association (EENMA)

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