The faster it accelerates, the more expensive the COVID-19 pandemic becomes. To the shipping industry in particular. According to figures put forward in February by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the industry is losing 350 million dollars a week in revenue.
Several organisations therefore took the opportunity of an extraordinary meeting of European Transport Ministers on Wednesday 18 March (see other news) to call on the EU to take up the issue.
Although they recognise the...