News / MEPs back draft proposals to reform and modernise EU port sector

The proposed EU Ports Services Regulation (PSR) passed its first hurdle yesterday when a draft report was adopted by the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

The decision means the draft report, drawn up by Hamburg MEP Knut Fleckenstein, will move forward to negotiations with EU member states and the European Commission.

It is the EU’s third attempt to reform and modernise port services in its port sector. Previous efforts – in 2001 and 2004 – failed miserably after making the mistake of focusing on liberalising the ...