Streamlining Europe's shipping industry

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Europe

Judith Fagelson

Content Manager

European shipping policy is in need of a makeover. It is fragmented, inefficient and needlessly bureaucratic, according to Patrick Verhoeven, secretary general of the European Community Shipowners’ Association (ECSA). That is why the ECSA has published a set of 16 proposals for reform, ahead of the European Commission’s full review of its shipping policy, taking place over 2016-17.

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