{"id":141458,"date":"2024-10-18T19:18:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldcargonews.com\/?p=51370"},"modified":"2024-10-18T19:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:18:27","slug":"will-the-chancellor-waive-the-fiscal-rules-for-uk-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=141458","title":{"rendered":"Will the Chancellor waive the fiscal rules for UK shipping?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK Chamber of Shipping, the trade association for the maritime industry, has outlined a roadmap for UK shipping to reach net zero by 2050, with a proposed \u00a3 700m (US$ 910m) investment in the upcoming UK government Budget to help make the UK a hub for clean shipping.<\/p>\n

Key to this plan is cooperation between the industry and government to update the 2019 Clean Maritime Plan, to guide emission reduction efforts. The Chamber has made several recommendations to the UK government, highlighting areas where public investment can unlock significant private funding. However, those funds may not be foremost in the chancellor\u2019s balance sheet, this time around.<\/p>\n

Decarbonisation package<\/h2>\n

The headline bid is for \u00a3 343m (US$ 449m) over five years to help reduce emissions through a bespoke decarbonisation programme. That programme was first announced in 2022.<\/p>\n

The Chamber says it has played a crucial role in helping fund research and development of technology that will help the sector reduce its carbon emissions. Previous funding has helped unlock over \u00a366 million in extra investment.<\/p>\n

The next big-ticket item is a \u00a3 200m (US$ 262m) ask for funds to be allocated from the \u00a31.8bn pledged to fund port infrastructure. The Chamber says this would deliver ten projects to design, build and operate a network of \u2018shore power\u2019 systems<\/a> at UK ports.<\/p>\n

The other asks are no less ambitious. They amount to \u00a3 150m of investment over the next five years in projects as diverse as ferry service support and training the next generation of British seafarers.<\/p>\n

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Louise Haigh at UK Chamber of Shipping Conference 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Are the Budget asks high and dry?<\/h2>\n

However, whether or not that \u00a3700m plea is answered affirmatively, is another matter. The UK transport secretary, Louise Haigh, addressed this month\u2019s Chamber conference in London, warmly praising the sector.<\/p>\n

However, Haigh is just one of a queue of senior ministers who are knocking on the door of the Chancellor, ahead of the forthcoming budget speech.<\/p>\n

Haigh\u2019s parliamentary colleague, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, has warned that her first full budget, to be delivered on 30 October, will be very much about tightening belts, not loosening purse strings.<\/p>\n

Rhett Hatcher, the UK Chamber of Shipping\u2019s CEO<\/a>, emphasised that the asks, while ostensibly flagged as net-zero initiatives, were vital to the industry overall.<\/p>\n

\u201cA long term plan is an important first step but this must be matched by delivering the infrastructure we need as is already happening in other locations,\u201d he said. \u201cThis includes delivering on the required infrastructure, including a shore power revolution, to help attract green shipping to the UK, benefitting not just maritime communities but the entire maritime supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UK Chamber of Shipping proposes a \u00a3 700m investment in the Budget to help achieve net zero by 2050 and make the UK a clean shipping hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6031,72,13989,7905,2305,1232,8494,471,13990,13991,12154,13988,13992,333],"tags":[12159],"class_list":["post-141458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-budget","category-business","category-clean-maritime-plan","category-decarbonisation","category-environment","category-investment","category-louise-haigh","category-news","category-rachel-reeves","category-rhett-hatcher","category-shipping-logistics","category-trade-professional-associations","category-uk-chamber-of-shipping","category-uk-government","tag-world-cargo-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142258,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141458\/revisions\/142258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}