EU shipbuilding 'must resume', says MEP

摘要

A five-point plan to stimulate growth in the EU shipbuilding industry has been proposed by Portuguese Member of European Parliament Joao Ferreira. In the EU journal Parliament, Ferreira noted that after a decline in industrial activity since the 1970s, the region's shipbuilding industry had become increasingly successful and dynamic in recent years. But he argued that the trend was "neither general nor uniform in all EU countries built upon a maritime tradition" and that the importance of shipbuilding was often undervalued by the EU.