Spain leads green collection in EU ports despite Maersk’s ‘Morocco bridge’

The Danish shipping company accumulates traffic bound for Spain in the Moroccan port of Tangier Med and avoids the payment of ETS

The European Union (EU) country that will collect the most money and inspect the most ships in application of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission rights trading system in maritime transport, better known as EU ETS, which came into force on January 1, will be Spain. And it will do so despite the fact that the world’s second largest shipping company, Maersk, has decided to concentrate its traffic in Tangier Med, a Moroccan port, which has two immediate repercussions: it distances it from the Port of Valencia and from the payment of the Emissions Trading System (ETS).

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