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Regional Focus

Sweden

HInformation is key

aving seen the difficulties Parliament is in English – these business for Swedish suppliers. They
faced by small ship supply documents are massive and quite are also looking forward to the

firms grappling to put complicated and this makes it difficult simplification of their work where

complex EU legislation into practice, for our members, who are usually small customs and other authorities
Keijo Hiltunten and Kenneth Odeus – ship chandlers with limited time to read are concerned.

Chairman and Secretary General, Describing how large catering all this information,” Mr Hiltunten
respectively, of the Swedish companies have also been the cause of said, adding that as chairman, he

Shipsuppliers Association (Sveriges testing times for suppliers, Mr wants to inspire others and to help
Skeppshandlareförbund) have decided Hiltunten added: “We are seeing a ship chandlers who may be struggling

to help their members keep up-to-date centralisation of purchases from ship to make sense of such rules
with relevant rules.
owners to large catering companies. and regulations.

“We want to keep our members Describing some further challenges, These companies make worldwide
informed of activities which are going Mr Hiltunten and Mr Odeus said they agreements with large, certified ship

on at European and international level, are hopeful that the Swedish Crown chandlers and this trend is impacting on

especially relevant changes concerning will soon stabilise at a more favourable small ship suppliers who continue to
rules and laws from the EU. All level as this would be a boost to support ship owners sporadically
outside of these agreements.”
information from the European
customer confidence and increase
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