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Kiel (dpa) - After the end of the Corona restrictions, the cruise business in the German ports is to restart in a coordinated manner.
The responsible ministers and senators of the five northern German federal states agreed on this.
This should avoid distortions of competition, said the Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Economics Bernd Buchholz (FDP) after a video conference of the department heads on Wednesday evening.
That does not mean that politicians intervene in the competition and say which ship should go to which port.
The northern German federal states wanted to try to define the same hygiene requirements as the standard.
And: "If we can somehow, we want to coordinate opening times, from when what can start again, so that there is no race."
In addition, the five northern German states want to quickly adjust their seaports to the energy supply of the future.
The responsible ministers and senators from Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Bremen want to work together despite competition.
Investments in handling facilities for gas and regeneratively produced hydrogen would have to be made now if one does not want to watch how business is done in other countries, said Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's energy and infrastructure minister Christian level (SPD) after a port development dialogue with his counterpart.
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Ministers and senators agreed that Germany will not be able to meet its own needs for hydrogen and the liquid energy sources produced from it if coal, oil and natural gas are to be replaced by carbon dioxide-free energy sources.
"I see enormous potential here for our German ports," said the German government's maritime coordinator, Norbert Brackmann.
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