According to the Alliance, the penalty ships built by US President Donald Trump would bring consequential damage to the European economy. Accordingly, European shipping companies would be met immediately, which also obtain many of their merchant ships from the People’s Republic. “Europe also ran under the construction of merchant ships under also,” said Anastasios Leonburg, risk engineer at Allianz Commercial, the company insurer of the Munich Dax Group. “The Chinese build thousands of ships and maybe ten in the year,” said the former nautical captain.
Million fee for entering US ports
The Trump government wants to revive shipbuilding in the United States and therefore threatens the shipping companies worldwide immense port fees. Ships of all nations built in China are said to pay up to $ 1.5 million when a US port. Unlike the tariffs threatened by Trump on cars, this announcement in Europe has not caused too much sensation because it is not directed directly against the EU.
“Reeder will change the costs”
“The fees for Chinese and China -built ships would generally make the port start more expensive,” said Leonburg. “The shipowners will not pay for this out of their own pocket, they have to change the costs.” Reeding companies would also consider three times whether they start US ports. “Consumers in the United States will quickly feel that.”
Europe has only low shipbuilding capacities
However, even European and German shipping companies cannot do without Chinese ships. “There are not so many shipyards where you could have your ship built,” said Leonburg. However, these shipyards existed in China, and they are now better than 10 or 20 years ago. The Chinese shipbuilders had acquired know-how, which is slowly being lost in Germany. “The big shipping companies therefore order their ships in China.”
The Beijinger leadership has promoted shipbuilding in the past 20 years, so that today the majority of the container and other cargo ships of Chinese and other cargo ships are originally originally. “Ultimately, the tariffs and the increased port fees meet everyone, including the American consumers and the logistics companies,” said Leonburg.
