The British Tugowners Association (BTA) has issued the revised UK Standard Conditions for Towage (UKSCT) and Other Services (2024). These were discussed at the ETA Sustainable Conference organized in Rome (12 November 2024). The panelists, Nick Dorman (Targe Towing and Chair of the review panel), Alexander McCooke (Shipowners´ Club) and Read more…
The European Tugowners Association supports the European Commission’s (EC) endeavours to reduce emissions. Furthermore, as a sector, it is doing its utmost to reduce emissions of the industry. As the EC rightly points out in its consultation, the term “offshore ships” can lead to various interpretations among the stakeholders, which Read more…
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…
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…
