Shipping and decarbonization: Pressure mounts for reinvestment of revenues into green technologies

Calls for reinvesting revenues generated from decarbonization measures backmost into greenish shipping technologies gained traction successful Brussels, wherever President Charalambos Simantonis and representatives of the European Shortsea Network received a affirmative effect from European decision-making centers during a argumentation store held connected Tuesday, May 12, astatine the offices of Greece’s Permanent Representation to the European Union.

The imaginativeness for utilizing Shortsea Shipping was translated into strategies that afloat bespeak its value and relation not lone wrong the intermodal transport concatenation — that is, the proscription of goods utilizing 2 oregon much antithetic means of transport — but besides its publication toward achieving the EU’s goals of safeguarding competitiveness, strengthening information and reinforcing the Single European Market amid geopolitical tensions and economical instability.

It appears that the European Union is moving cautiously but steadily toward the adjacent phase: implementing these strategies portion maintaining the prosperity of the assemblage arsenic a guiding principle.

Greece’s Permanent Representative to the EU, Ioannis Vrailas, delivered the opening remarks, stating that Shortsea Shipping is portion of the solution — not the occupation — successful Europe’s way toward the greenish transition.

He additionally called connected EU subordinate states to enactment the sector’s efforts.