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BPA: UK port volume growth not due to EU shippers avoiding ETS
BPA is pushing back against EU attempts to designate Felixstowe, London and Southampton as neighbouring container transhipment ports amid the question of whether shippers are rerouting cargo to avoid EU ETS charges, and says UK port volume growth is not due to such avoidance.
UK lobbyists pushed back at attempts to have the EU designate Felixstowe, London and Southampton as “neighbouring container transhipment ports”, according to the report. The dispute is tied to the ongoing question of whether shippers are rerouting cargo to avoid charges under the EU ETS scheme.
The report’s title states that, according to BPA, UK port volume growth is not due to EU shippers avoiding the ETS.
In July, the EU ETS Observatory was developed by Spain’s state-owned ports administrator Puertos del Estado as a way of monitoring carbon leakage from its transhipment hub of Algeciras to Morocco’s Tanger, the text adds.
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