UK port volume growth not due to EU shippers avoiding ETS, says BPA
The Loadstar · Oct 15, 2026
UK lobbyists today pushed back at attempts to have the EU designate the ports of Felixstowe, London, and Southampton as “neighbouring container transhipment ports”, in the ongoing question of whether shippers are rerouting cargo to avoid ETS scheme charges. In July, the EU ETS Observatory – 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 ...
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