Fragmented policymaking is hurting Europe’s shipping and should be streamlined to make the industry more competitive, the head of the continent’s main owners’ association says.
After this week’s European Union elections, policy portfolios should be reshuffled and shipping-related activities put under one roof, Panos Laskaridis, president of the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA), argues.
“The current fragmentation of responsibilities has been counterproductive,” Laskaridis tells TradeWinds in an interview at his offices in Athens.
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