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Along with inland water transport, which is a secure, environment-friendly means of transport and which accounts for around 7% of the goods traffic of the former 15 Member States, coastal shipping also deserves greater attention and promotion.
I welcome the proposal before us, which takes a significant step towards the ‘motorways of the sea’ that we wish to see. I should like to highlight the introduction of coordinated measures in the areas of shipping, ports and intermodality policy in order to boost the role of ports as transport network hubs, along with measures to ease administrative and customs formalities.
I feel that this resource, which is valuable and sustainable over the medium and long term, remains under-funded. As the report points out, it will only be profitable to make the heavy investment needed to provide regular, frequent and varied services if there is sufficient concentration of tonnes transported. For this to happen, port facilities must be improved and the possibilities offered by new technologies must be exploited.
In line with the targets set in the 2001 White Paper, the ‘motorways of the sea’ should be made part of the trans-European transport network in the same way as motorways or railways."@en1
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