Pomorstvo, Vol. 21 No. 1, 2007.
Prethodno priopćenje
THE EU MARITIME TRANSPORT POLICY AND THE SEAPORTS
Bojan Hlača
Sažetak
The EU maritime transport policy aims at ensuring a free and efficient carriage of people, goods and services in a, for the society and the environment, safe and economical way. Apart from breaking down physical, technical and fiscal barriers in the traffic of goods and passengers among the Member States, the EU transport policy tends to achieve: the integration of the means of transport and the integration of the national transport networks. The EU transport policy aims at decreasing the road traffic overload and the related environmental protection and economic charges by switching from road to other means of transport, particularly to the transport by sea. Further improvements in shipping and the development of sea-lanes have a priority in disburdening the major European roads and bottlenecks that are hardly able to ingest the growing traffic. Therefore, the further EU maritime transport development exclusively depends on powerful and efficiently operating seaports. The EU has defined the guidelines for the Trans European Transport Networks (TEN-T) development (18), thus giving the seaports an appropriate place within. When seaports are to be considered, a special activity has to be focused on the assistance that the TEN-T can offer to seaports in improving their safety, in creating equal port operating conditions and in setting an internal market within the port itself. Since 1993 the European Seaports Organization (ESPO) has been acting as the representative of the EU seaports authorities, associations and management. By influencing the EU political bodies, the ESPO aims at achieving a safe, effective and ecologically sustainable European seaport sector that will function as the key element in the transport branch of economy where free market conditions will prevail to the maximum. The basic goal of the seaport policy is to ensure approximately equal operating conditions, free and loyal competition among seaports, provided that the tariff policy, as related to all users of the port services within the EU, is a transparent one. What do seaports expect from the EU is the creation of a consistent policy, by means of which a general framework of activities on three key areas will be target: an easier way of building port capacities, seaport access roads and hinterland links, taking measures to induce to offer competitive and efficient port services in the transport chain, and stimulating the wider community to assume the responsibility for seaports.
Ključne riječi
Maritime Transport Policy; Seaports; EU
Hrčak ID:
14197
URI
Datum izdavanja:
27.6.2007.
Posjeta: 4.678 *