NORWAY SHIPPING
January 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE NORWEIGAN government is to conduct a three-year review of its subsidised shipping service providing a lifeline for 34 ports from Bergen to Kirkenes, in the far north, near the Russian border. The move follows an agreement struck with the surveillance authority of the European Free Trade Area, (EFTA), which polices the European Economic Area rules by which Norway must abide.These closely mirror free and fair trading laws in place in the European Union and so the authority was able to demand an open contest for shipping companies to ply the ...
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