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Regional Focus

Greece

Greek Association bids to

reduce bureaucracy

T
he ship supply business in Greece is decreasing due to Furthermore, he said, there was no suitable planning and
the international economic crisis and the Government is this had to do with the development of home porting, in order

not doing much to help.to have the respective motive to suppliers to develop.
That’s according to Nick Mavrikos, President of the He explained how Greek legislation ensures that food

Hellenic Ship Suppliers & Exporters Association, who said the supplies delivered to cruisers are exempt from taxes, VAT and
crisis was having a knock-on effect as cargo vessels struggle to from Special Consumption Tax, according to EU directives,

ind freight and shipyards are seeing less work.however, no exemption is provided for food supplies
“On a Government level there was neither the care nor the delivered to professional tourist ships, even when they are on

initiative to gather all ship suppliers within Piraeus harbour and international routes.
create a free zone area so that we could have lower operational “The result of all these that I described above is to make

and administrative costs with more competitive logistics costs the Greek supplier unable to compete, and the same holds

and less use of public employees as happens in most European true to a lot of professionals involved in the ield of supplies,
countries,” said Mr Mavrikos.for example, customs, brokers, transporters, agents etc.

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