The ETA Nautical Technical Committee has worked together with the European Maritime Pilots Association in order to define a series of recommendations for tugboat captains, pilots and harbour masters which will help them optimise the energy efficiency on the tugs and the assisted vessels during harbour towage operations. These recommendations Read more…
The European Tugowners Association is supporting the organisation of the upcoming TUGTECHNOLOGY ’23, taking place in Rotterdam on the 22-23th of May. TUGTECHNOLOGY is unquestionably the tug community’s leading conference, firmly established as the must-attend event in the collective diary. The programme and the papers to be presented and discussed Read more…
ETA organised its Sustainable Conference Electrification and Digitalization of the towage industry on the 2nd of February in Brussels. 55 delegates attended the event, which was dedicated to explore the realities linked to the electrification of tugs, its state of play and the necessary actions policy makers and the industry need to Read more…
ETA February´s newsletter focuses on Greenport Alliance, the EU project conceived by the European Tugowners Association, which has been selected by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency to receive EU funding. . Read the newsletter here. Subscribe to our newsletter
ETA is organising its next Sustainable Conference in Brussels, on the 2nd of February (10.00 – 12.30) at the BIP Meeting Center, right next to the Royal Palace (Rue Royale 2-4). The theme of the event will be Electrification and Digitalization of the towage industry. The use of electricity in the shipping industry, through Read more…
ETA December´s newsletter focuses on the Association´s position concerning the negative impact of the application of the EU ETS for Shipping on European peripheric transhipment terminals. Read the newsletter here. Subscribe to our newsletter
Brussels, 21 October 2022 The undersigned associations representing European ports, private port companies and terminal operators and tugowners support an effective and robust maritime EU ETS that enables the green transition of the maritime sector. The three associations recognise and reiterate the need for the shipping sector to reduce emissions. Read more…
ETA October´s newsletter is dedicated to the next Sustainable Conference which will take place on the 9th of November in Rotterdam with a quite original theme: Can nuclear be a clean energy option for small vessels? Read the newsletter here. Subscribe to our newsletter
ETA, together with 9 EU associations signed a letter calling for a change of the legislative framework in which the container shipping lines are able to cooperate and therefore for a revision of the extension of the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation. This 10 associations asked the EU Commission in July Read more…
The ETA, together with the European Maritime Pilots Association, has received the Safety Award at the 26th International Tug & Salvage Convention (ITS) for its Common Guidelines for Efficient and Safe Harbour Operations, which ETA and EMPA published in June 2019. The award recognizes the associations´ endeavours to drive up Read more…