Shipping: France Loses Out On Brexit Billions: Belgian Together With Dutch Ports Picked For Novel Irish Route

Via Hellenic Shipping News:

French ports were excluded from plans adopted past times the European Commission to practise transportation routes from Republic of Ireland to the residue of the Continent patch avoiding United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland – which could toll Paris billions of euros inwards European Union grants.

The Commission, the EU’s powerful executive, decided to practise a at i time transportation road past times connecting Dublin as well as Cork alongside the Port of Rotterdam inwards the Netherlands as well as the Belgian ports of Antwerp as well as Zeebrugge.

H5N1 Commission spokesman said: “This is to guarantee the connectivity of Republic of Ireland alongside keep Europe, inwards detail past times ensuring clarity as well as continuity every bit regards futurity priorities for infrastructure evolution as well as investments.”

H5N1 diagram, dated July eleven as well as published on the Commission’s website, 7 French seaports – Roscoff, Brest, Cherborug, Le Havre, Caen, Calais as well as Dunkerque – were listed on map alongside connections to Ireland, suggesting they were i time considered routes.

French ports as well as concern groups attempted to anteroom Brussels exactly to no avail. Six of 7 reports every bit role of a consultation said the road should run through France.

In the EU’s draft budget for 2021-2027, in that place is a proposed €30.6 billion available for its Connecting Europe Facility – which is designed to help alongside major infrastructure upgrades across the bloc.
This way French Republic could lose out on billions of European Union funding every bit the Dutch as well as Belgian ports tin apply for funds to increase their capacity ahead of the novel routes existence opened.

Funding is withal far from a guarantee every bit handouts are heavily reliant on the upshot of Brexit negotiations, because the routes would solely move needed inwards the trial of a no deal, as well as withal demand to move adopted past times the European Parliament as well as Council.

Martin Selmayr, the High German caput of the EU’s civil service, has been leading a squad preparing for the possibility of a British no bargain divorce.

In a briefing to MEPs inwards June, he stressed the importance of Republic of Ireland non existence cutting off financially from the residue of the European Union every bit a final result of Brexit. In the trial of no deal, Dublin volition snuff it to a greater extent than oftentimes than non cutting off from Northern European ports due to its geographical place as well as the reliance using the Dover-Calais route....MORE