Text tabled : A7-0217/2010

  Diogo Feio (PPE), in writing. – (PT) This proposal aims to make the collection of data by type of goods obligatory for maritime transport statistics and to standardise the type of information collated and processed in the 27 Member States. As the rapporteur says, the existence of comprehensive and uniform statistics by type of goods for all forms of transport would provide a general framework that would be useful for supporting and monitoring the policy of promoting co-modality; that is, the possibility of an optimal combination of different modes of transport in the same transport chain, along with the modernisation of freight logistics.

Given the importance of safe and effective transportation of goods in international trade, I support the Commission’s proposal.