The European Commission presented a set of legislative proposals to update the EU rules on maritime safety and prevent water pollution. These initiatives will align EU rules with international regulations and improve the cooperation and information-sharing between flag States, while strengthening the implementation and enforcement through digital tools and a Read more…
The European Tugowners Association will meet again to celebrate its 60th Annual General Meeting in the coast of Alicante (Spain). The ETA 2023 AGM will take place from the 13th to the 16th of June at the Asia Gardens Hotel, in Benidorm (Alicante) and it will be hosted by ETA Read more…
ETA April´s newsletter focuses on the kick-off of the EU project Greenport Alliance and the dissemination of an online survey to identify training gaps in order to carry out a sectorial need analysis. Read the newsletter here. Subscribe to our newsletter
The European Tugowners Association (ETA) favours initiatives that would help decarbonise and mitigate the effects of climate change. Indeed ETA supports and shares the ambitions of the European Union for 2050 in terms of the Green Deal. Nonetheless, ETA notes that the ETS emissions scheme for the maritime sector, which Read more…
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