Articolo. Public financing and charging practices of seaports in the EU, prepared by "Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics"
20th febbraio 2009
Abstract:
Italian:
Un aspetto essenziale relativo alla politica portuale è sicuramente il sistema di finanziamento delle opere portuali nonchè le metodologie di pratica dei canoni applicate ai terminalisti concessionari. Questo lavoro parte dall’analisi della governance dei maggiori porti di 30 Stati membri dell’Unione europea fornendo un’ampia panoramica dei differenti sistemi di controllo e di gestione di cui sono titolari i molteplici modelli di Autorità Portuali presenti in Europa. Ma il fulcro dello studio risiede nei metodi di finanziamento pubblico delle opere e delle infrastrutture di trasporto strumentali all’esercizio dei servizi terminalistici.
English:
The subject of financing and charging of terminal-related infrastructure and suprastructure in European Seaports has been proven as higly sensible since port authorities and port operators regard both categories as instruments of competition policies. Due to the increasing competition of seaports for vessel operators but also for the settlement of port related companies, the relevant authorities run a very restrictive information policy. It is the aim of the study to contribute to the transparency on both areas public financial flows into the port sector and charging flows back to the state. The first part deals with the Identification of systems for public financing in 20 Member States. The second part aims at the Identification, description and quantification of public financing of the top 30 EU seaports for 2003. The ports to be addressed in this part were identified in a selection process that considered in addition to the total volumes per port also port characteristics in terms of size and strategic significance. The second issue on charging flows has been addressed in workpackage II. Here,it is the aim to identify and describe the systems of charging practices in the 20 EU Member States.
The relevant systems of charging practices refer to the port superstructure – in those Member States where it is publicly owned - and to the terminal related port infrastructure.
