"EU transport boss to discuss Turkish ban as shipping chiefs gather in Cyprus
By Jean Christou THE TURKISH ban on Cypriot ships and its refusal to apply EU the customs union protocol will be among the discussions that shipping bosses will have with EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot during the Maritime Cyprus conference later this month. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Communications and Works and Chairman of the Conference’s Organising Committee, Makis Constantinides, said yesterday that unless Turkey lifted the embargo, in place since 1987, negotiations on its Transport chapter would not begin. Speaking at a news conference in Nicosia to launch the biannual Maritime Cyprus, which will take place from September 23-26, Constantinides said the government was working on incentives for ship owners that would counter the Turkish ban and bring more tonnage to the flag."
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