European Maritime Commissioner Responds to Global Institute of Logistics Question

In response to a question from the Global Institute of Logistics, the European Commissioner for fisheries and maritime affairs, Dr Joe Borg, said that reports earlier in the year of a rift between him and his transport counterpart in Brussels, Jacques Barrot, were exaggerated.

(PRWEB) October 18, 2006 -- At the end of May, influential newspaper Lloyd’s List quoted to Dr Borg as saying: “We will have to address the issue of whether maritime transport should remain part of transport policy or whether there should be some change. One has to address the matter because I think it is crucial.”

Now, he says it would be a bad idea to “hive off” the maritime piece; “you’d create problems with how it connects to road and rail.”

He adds that he and Mr Barrot are both committed to establishing “closer co-ordination.” The transport commissioner is one of ten members of the steering group guiding his maritime green paper towards, he hopes, meaningful legislation for the maritime industry in the European Union.

“We’re working well together,” Dr Borg says. “There is lots of discussion within the Commission.”

To read the interview in full please visit the homepage of the Global Institute of Logistics Maritime Logistics Council at www.globeinst.org/maritime

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The Global Institute of Logistics is a community of logisticians and supply chain professionals drawn from the global business community who support the Institutes objectives of creating end-to-end integration and visibility in the global supply chain.

The Institute actively fosters and promotes relationship orientation as its key change agent and catalyst in pursuit of these objectives.

Relationship orientation refers to the proactive creation, development and maintenance of relationships between global supply chain partners resulting in mutual exchange and fulfillment of promises at a profit.

It is the Institutes assertion that the greater the level of relationship orientation between stakeholders, the greater the operational logistics service quality improvements that will result.

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