Europe should adopt a more global approach when it comes to shipping in order to improve its competitiveness, the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) suggests.
As the European Union’s current maritime strategy expires in 2018, the continent has to get ready for the new decade, ECSA secretary general Patrick Verhoeven said during European Shipping Week (ESW).
As TradeWinds reported last week, ECSA commissioned Deloitte to conduct a study of its competitiveness, which showed that other maritime centres around the globe are rapidly growing.
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