The week's EU maritime regulatory developments, distilled.
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Request a free trial →A new European Shipowners study reports that the European-controlled fleet represents 34.5% of the world fleet by capacity. The figure, used in the press release accompanying the publication and in the executive summary, is a five-year rolling average. The study’s own data tables show the underlying picture is
Wartime Europe: the preparations you don't see. The European port industry has told Brussels its state aid rules cannot keep up with the cost of building infrastructure that "primarily serves collective security" — heavy-lift ramps, reinforced quays, rail interfaces for moving military equipment — and are also failing