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"Mr President, I would obviously like to respond very positively to this new offer of dialogue, made in the report by Mr Navarro, whom I would like to thank once again.
The concept of motorways of the sea is starting to become a reality. At the weekend, the opening of a new motorway between Toulon and Civitavecchia, near Rome, showed the way forward. The concept of motorways of the sea is now an integral part of trans-European networks, and I very much hope that the financial perspectives will allow us to give motorways of the sea their place.
I realise that the gathering of statistics needs to be improved and updated. The European Parliament’s definition - and I am thinking here of what you yourself emphasised, Mr Navarro, along with Mr Jarzembowski and some others - points usefully in the direction of integrating maritime transport into the intermodal chain, including river transport. We must therefore encourage states, regions and towns to cooperate as necessary. We now have a certain degree of intermodality, and we must take it further. There is no competition with rail transport but, rather, complementarity. Likewise, river and maritime transport can also complement each other very well.
That is why I personally believe that short sea shipping has real potential - one of you said a great future - and should enable us to reduce congestion on our roads and thus to provide Europe with additional means of mobility. I therefore want to thank Parliament, which has, in this report, contributed a number of elements that I very much hope will be implemented to create an even more ambitious policy regarding short sea shipping."@en1
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