Inter­fer­ry to co-host Euro­pean Ship­ping Sum­mit work­shop urging short sea car­go increase

The work­shop – ‘How to increase the share of mari­ti­me trans­port in Europe’s trade’ – takes place at 09:30 on Sep­tem­ber 19 in the Roy­al Muse­um of Fine Arts and is open to all inte­res­ted pro­fes­sio­nals.
Ship­ping asso­cia­ti­ons from Cyprus, Ita­ly, the Net­her­lands and Spain are co-hosting the ses­si­on, whe­re Interferry’s key input will be pro­vi­ded by regu­la­to­ry affairs direc­tor Johan Roos and Britt­a­ny Fer­ries CEO Chris­to­phe Mathieu.

Roos comm­ents: “Fer­ry ship­ping is bey­ond doubt a very effi­ci­ent means of trans­port, with poli­cy makers and the indus­try united in their goal of shif­ting more volu­mes from road to sea. Howe­ver, the rea­li­ties requi­red to achie­ve this ambi­ti­on are too often lack­ing.
“To echo Interferry’s ‘Stron­ger Tog­e­ther’ creed, we must now work coll­ec­tively to embrace oppor­tu­ni­ties, over­co­me chal­lenges and share our know­ledge, both from an indus­try and a poli­cy makers´ per­spec­ti­ve. The Euro­pean trans­port sys­tem is wide­ly over-reliant on the road net­work, lea­ding to con­ges­ti­on and infra­struc­tu­re rundown, whe­re­as short sea ship­ping can offer a more
via­ble eco­no­mic and envi­ron­men­tal alter­na­ti­ve. I look for­ward to wel­co­ming decis­i­on makers and indus­try par­ti­ci­pan­ts to our dis­cus­sion on how best to sup­port our visi­on while kee­ping a level play­ing field and impro­ving the over­all sus­taina­bi­li­ty of the trans­port sys­tem.”
The 2023 Euro­pean Ship­ping Sum­mit on Sep­tem­ber 19–20 is orga­nis­ed by the Euro­pean Com­mu­ni­ty Shipow­ners’ Asso­cia­ti­ons (ECSA) in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Inter­fer­ry and other mari­ti­me asso­cia­ti­ons. The event fea­tures indus­try ses­si­ons, net­wor­king oppor­tu­ni­ties and high-level dia­lo­gues focu­sed on Euro­pean and inter­na­tio­nal poli­cy makers, regu­la­tors and indus­try stake­hol­ders. Regis­tra­ti­on is
available at www.europeanshippingsummit.eu