British shipping: Charting a new course
Table of contents
- Foreword
- Executive Summary
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Britain and the Sea Today
- Tackling the Issues
- Chapter 2: The Context for a New Shipping Policy
- The Importance of Shipping to the UK
- The Opportunities
- The Current Decline
- Reasons for Decline
- The United Kingdom's Response
- Chapter 3: Moving Ahead
- Why Do Anything More?
- The Government's Wider Industrial Policy
- The European Experience
- Elements of a UK Shipping Policy
- Synergy and partnership
- Chapter 4: A Comprehensive Strategy
- Increasing Skills
- Encouraging Employment
- Increasing the UK's Attractiveness to Shipping Enterprises
- Gaining Safety and Environmental Benefit
- Chapter 5: Implementation and Conclusions
- Implementation
- Monitoring and Accountability
- Conclusion
- Summary of Policy Measures
- Annex A: The Shipping Working Group Summary of Proposals
- Annex B: Synopses of the Reports of the Universities of Wales and London Guildhall
- Annex C: Recommendations from other Reports into the Shipping Industry
- Annex D: Summary of the European Commission Maritime State Aid Guidelines
- Annex E: Glossary of Terms

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