A combined framework to support coastal shipping is necessary

Coastal shipping companies are calling for a caller support framework, since, aft May 2026, when the 50% simplification successful larboard fees expires, the pressures of accrued operating costs will pb to inevitable summons increases.

As the president of the Greek Shipowners Association For Passenger Ships (SEEN), Dionysis Theodoratos, emphasized successful an interrogation with “N”, coastal shipping is astatine a captious crossroads, where the greenish transition and European commitments necessitate immense investments, while the sustainability of the companies indispensable beryllium balanced with the request for affordable prices.

He besides underlined that the situation is pressing arsenic increases successful tickets are practically inevitable if there is nary continued support.

He noted that the simplification successful larboard fees by 50%, from May 2025, has acted arsenic a countermeasure against expanding costs, limiting the pass-through to prices. However, this is simply a temporary measure.

Theodoratos besides projected a operation of policies: κοινωνικά discounts, with nonstop compensation for imperishable islanders and vulnerable groups, simplification of fees and charges, sum of seasonality costs and fiscal tools for the modernization and vigor ratio of the fleet.

Referring to the government’s intentions to make fiscal tools for the “greening” of the fleet, helium pointed retired that this is undoubtedly a indispensable and affirmative initiative, which ideally should already beryllium successful the implementation stage, owed to the country’s European commitments.
Greece cannot beryllium near retired of the strategy for sustainable shipping, particularly successful a assemblage such arsenic coastal shipping, helium emphasized.