Among the maritime nations of the European Union, coastal regions account for over 40% of Europe’s GDP while roughly 90 % of the EU’s foreign trade and over 40% of the internal trade travels by water. The European Union has no alternative but to use maritime transport and all its transport strategies increasingly give priority to this particular form of transport of goods. Maritime trade is constantly under threat from various types of risk, which may be political, economic, ecological or military (and include terrorism, piracy and organised crime).
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