With a view to drafting an own-initiative report, members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) discussed the creation of a comprehensive European ports strategy on Monday 26 June. In their view, ports have been overlooked in European strategies and are suffering from intra-European competition.
The rapporteur, Tom Berendsen (EPP, Dutch), set out the reasons for his forthcoming report. “I see this as a continuation of the discussion on the influence...