INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

By 2020 Newsletter week 15

French Shipowners Ask for Maritime Marshall Plan

During his last days as chairman of the French Shipowners Association (Armateurs de France), Brittany Ferries chairman Jean-Marc Roué asked President Macron to save the French flag. “Mr President, you have repeatedly said that we are in war. Well, let’s make together a ‘Marshall Plan’ to save our industry.”

Now that ‘Brussels’ allows for more support, Mr Roué wants to start a Governmental rescue operation as soon as possible.

Read the letter here (in French).

A new chairman has been elected: Jean-Emmanuel Sauvée (Ponant).