Strasbourg, 14/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission adopted a Communication and a draft directive on the opening up of port services to competition. The text is intended to encourage maritime activity in Europe to allow it to compete with the other forms of transport, on the basis of healthy competition, Commissioner Loyola de Palacio assured the press. Port development comes within the global strategy for development of an alternative mode of transport, to be specified in the...