Joint industry statement on the mid-term review of the EU's Maritime Transport Policy

In June 2014, the Council invited the European Commission to present a mid-term review of the EU's Maritime Transport Policy until 2018 and outlook to 2020. Eager to provide the Commission with valuable input, ECSA, ECASBA, ETA, EuDA, CLIA Europe, Interferry and WSC have decided to make the review exercise...

Updated study highlights the economic importance of shipping

At a press conference today, ECSA presented the results of a recent update of the Oxford Economics study on the economic value of the EU shipping industry, which highlights the industry’s important contribution to the EU economy based on new and more reliable data.

According to the study, the overall...

Commissioner Bulc meets shipowners in Antwerp as a prelude to European Shipping Week

“From up there it all makes sense” commented European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc following a helicopter flight above the port of Antwerp in the context of a visit jointly organised yesterday by ECSA, Grimaldi Group, the Royal Belgian Shipowners’ Association and Antwerp Port Authority. This initiative, together with the European...

Intermanager and ECSA to hold seminar on migrants at sea during European Shipping Week

Intermanager and ECSA have taken the initiative to organise a seminar on the escalating humanitarian crisis involving migrants at sea during the upcoming European Shipping Week. Commission officials, MEPs and Member States’ representations will meet with industry representatives and other stakeholders to exchange views and discuss possible ways forward.

According...

Three more confirmations for European Shipping Week

Kaspars Ozoliņš, State Secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Transport, Nikolaos Tsakos, CEO and Director of Tsakos Energy Navigation EU and Chairman of INTERTANKO and John C. Lyras, President, Paralos Maritime Corporation S.A, Vice Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and Member of the Boards of the...

Guy Verhofstadt to address shipowners and EU officials at ECSA gala dinner

Mr Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian Prime Minister and leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), will be delivering a keynote speech at ECSA’s 50th anniversary gala dinner on March 4th - one of the European Shipping Week’s major events.

His confirmation comes only weeks after Ms...

European Shipping Week welcomes more keynote speakers and panellists

Adam Goldstein, President and COO of Royal Caribbean Cruises, Pierfrancesco Vago, Chairman of CLIA Europe and Executive Chairman of MSC Cruises, and Paolo Tonon, Vice-President and Head of Maersk Technology join an impressive list of key industry shipping personnel and EU regulators at European Shipping Week in Brussels 2-6 March...

The Council of the European Union backs European Shipping Week

The Presidency of the Council of the European Union has granted official patronage to the forthcoming European Shipping Week (ESW) which will be held in Brussels during March 2‐6, 2015. This support joins the European Parliament’s official patronage by its President, Mr Martin Schulz, and that of the European Commission...

Top shipowners and regulators line up to speak at flagship European Shipping Week conference

Violeta Bulc, European Transport Commissioner, will join the heads of the European and Global shipping industry as speaker at the inaugural flagship conference to be held as part of European Shipping Week 2015.

Commenting on the event, Commissioner Bulc said: “The ESW conference will be an opportunity to demonstrate...

Social partners welcome Council agreement on exclusions of seafarers

ECSA and ETF, the European Social Partners in the field of Maritime Transport, welcome the agreement (General Approach) reached yesterday by the EU's Council of Employment and Social Policy Ministers on the Commission’s proposal to amend five EU directives with an aim at repealing the exclusions of seafarers from these...