Shipping and Aegean Minister Kostis Mousouroulis on
Wednesday briefed the members of the London based Greek shipping community on
prospects appearing in the Greek economy, also following the successful
conclusion of Monday's Eurogroup.
The minister, who has been on an official visit to the British capital since Monday, presented to the members of the Greek Shipping Cooperation Committee the main lines of the plan he has prepared to make the Greek Registry more attractive for ships, while calling on the Greek shipping community to support this effort.
The ministry's aim is to achieve more effective
organising for speeding up and shortening the approval act for registering
ships under the Greek flag and the further recognition of the Greek Registry
internationally.
The Shipping ministry is already proceeding with
flexible oraganising aiming at eliminating bureaucracy and the computerisation
of all services related to shipping activity, while it is creating an
Electronic Registry for the simplification of the process for the inclusion of
a ship in it.
Greece has the
sixth biggest Registry in the international market with 1,989 ships, of which
862 are ocean-going.
November 29, 2012
