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…
ETA participated in the public consultation on the Roadmap on the next EU Strategy for Sustainable and Smart Mobility. The strategy should ensure that the Union develops a transport sector fit for a clean, digital and modern economy. A key element of the upcoming strategy will be the production and Read more…
Port towage is an essential sector for the EU economy, the industry assists 80% of cargo that arrives to European ports safely. This and other data are presented in the Economic impact of the European Towage sector, a study carried out by the Dutch consulting company ECORYS at the request Read more…
As part of its communication activities, ETA Secretariat designed a new of type of publication summarizing EU related information: Factsheets and infosheets. This succinct documents aim at informing our members and stakeholders on different relevant EU related topics. With these informative notes ETA Secretariat intends to give a clearer oversight Read more…
June 2016 The European Tugowners Association has long been clearly stating its position on the Draft Regulation on Market Access to Port Services and Financial Transparency of Ports (“Draft EU Ports Regulation”). During this last year, the ETA has been calling on the rejection of the Draft EU Ports Regulation whereby not all Read more…
1. EP Plenary Sessions on 7th March (discussion) + 8th March 2016 (vote) On 25th of January 2016 the Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament (“TRAN”) adopted the Draft Report following compromise amendments of Rapporteur Knut Fleckenstein (S&D, Hamburg) on the proposal for a regulation establishing a legislative Read more…
Members of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) of the European Parliament have started to discuss the Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on market access to port services and financial transparency of ports following over 700 amendments tabled and compromise amendments proposed by Rapporteur Knut Fleckenstein (S&D) for the Read more…
This document is intended to portray tug’s operational safety issues for the attention of all those concerned, mainly Pilots, Masters of vessels being assisted, their bridge teams and mooring parties. In February 2011, the European Tug owners’ Association (ETA) and the European Maritime Pilot’s Association (EMPA) jointly issued a document Read more…
The ETA’s Executive Committee has repeatedly rejected the European Commission’s initiative to launch a “Port Package III” by way of a new Regulation proposal on market access to port services and financial transparency of ports. In its 2013 Position Papers (find here and here) the ETA reflected the outcome of Read more…
Over the last decade European pilots and tug operators have increasingly experienced operational problems when handling ever-larger ships. The problems are mainly related to the type and / or strength and / or positioning of deck equipment on board of ships. This document is intended to raise the awareness of Read more…