In a long-awaited transfer, the European Fee has began preparations for an EU Ports Technique and EU Industrial Maritime Technique and is inviting stakeholders to take part within the course of.
On July 1, 2025, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, hosted two high-level strategic dialogues in Brussels. The conferences introduced collectively representatives from port, shipbuilding, delivery, inland waterway and associated industries to assist collectively outline priorities, alternatives and actions to feed into the event of the EU ports and industrial maritime methods.
As gateways for commerce, logistics, power and army mobility, ports should be match to assist Europe’s future financial and strategic wants, in keeping with the fee. A complete EU Ports Technique will goal to assist the long-term competitiveness of ports in phrases with a deal with safety, power transition, and sustainability.
On the similar time, Europe’s shipbuilding, maritime manufacturing and delivery sectors are underneath rising strain from world competitors and rising safety dangers. The EU Industrial Maritime Technique will goal to bolster the sector’s competitiveness and resilience, whereas driving ahead its inexperienced and digital transition.
“With our upcoming EU Ports and Industrial Maritime Methods, we goal to make sure that Europe’s ports and waterborne industries are outfitted to guide the clear and digital power transition, assist defence and commerce, and stay globally aggressive,” Tzitzikostas commented.
“Broad stakeholder enter is crucial – we’re dedicated to listening to the sector’s wants and ambitions to assist form a future-ready Europe.”
“As a part of our industrial restoration plan, the Fee is dedicated to supporting sectors the place Europe leads globally. The maritime trade and our ports are very important for Europe’s sovereignty. Our precedence is to strengthen their competitiveness whereas driving their decarbonisation. Right this moment’s dialogue is step one in direction of a renewed ambition for our European maritime management,” Stéphane Séjourné, Government Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Technique, mentioned.
The fee has additionally launched requires proof for each the EU Ports and EU Industrial Maritime Methods, inviting stakeholders to share their views till July 28, 2025.
In September final yr, the fee unveiled the choice to create an industrial maritime technique in an effort to improve “the competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of Europe’s maritime manufacturing sector”. The event of the brand new industrial maritime technique and port technique are according to the European Inexperienced Deal, which helps the inexperienced and digital transition of the waterborne sector.
A research launched final yr by the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) discovered that the funding wants of European port managing our bodies quantity to €80 billion for the subsequent 10 years, as much as 2034. A second key discovering is that investments in sustainability and power transition have gotten the second most essential funding class for port authorities. With the brand new technique, the EU authorities would assist port managing our bodies to implement much-needed initiatives.
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