Ports are key factors in the green and digital transition

In a play of geopolitical turmoil and European changes, the caller president of the Hellenic Ports Association (ELIME), Apostolos Kamarinakis, is drafting up a strategy with 4 axes: greenish transition, integer transformation, interconnection with onshore networks and organization representation.

He raised captious issues, such arsenic the caller larboard fees for cruises, the implementation of the European Entry-Exit system for the power of travelers successful ports, but also, astir importantly, the disbursement of European funds for infrastructure projects.

“The implementation of the measurement for cruise fees began past July and σύντομα there will beryllium the archetypal information connected however it affected rider behavior, total revenues and the advancement of the projects to beryllium financed,” helium pointed retired successful his interrogation with “N”.

Referring to his caller gathering with the EU Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, helium emphasized that it was peculiarly productive, arsenic the absorption was connected the prospects of Greek ports within the EU model and the strengthening of backing for greenish and integer transition projects.

In fact, helium noted that the Commissioner informed him that the magnitude available under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF – an EU fiscal tool) has been doubled, which opens up caller possibilities for Greece, while helium awaits the applicable proposals from ELIME.

Kamarinakis underlined that the extremity is to make a unified, resilient and competitory larboard system, susceptible of supporting the nationalist system and making the state a protagonist successful the European supply chain.