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Olaf Merk
@o_merk
Tweets in personal capacity on maritime transport - Works @ITF_Forum @oecd - Previously @financien @sciencespo
Jun 29, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We wrote reports on many of these subjects over the last few years... ...on the size of ships....itf-oecd.org/impact-mega-sh…
Sep 20, 2019 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
This is the story of a market distortion in cargo handling in ports. A distortion created by a government measure - the tonnage tax - and facilitated by the European Commission. We wrote about it in our recent report: itf-oecd.org/sites/default/… What is a tonnage tax? In essence a tailor-made tax regime for the shipping sector that gives the sector a much lower tax burden than economic sectors that pay corporate income tax.
Apr 15, 2018 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Shipping now also has its “Paris Agreement”. Is it an historic achievement or a collection of weasel words? How did we get here? And what still needs to be done? (thread) (1/19) Last Friday the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its member states agreed on an Initial GHG Strategy for shipping, which contains a level of ambition and candidate measures to realise the ambition. (2/19)