Today, the Transport Committee in the European Parliament adopted the own-initiative report building a comprehensive European Port Strategy. The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) highly welcomes that the report embraces the comprehensive role of Europe’s ports and the vital role that ports play for Europe’s society and economy. Not only as the European Union’s gateways to the world, logistic nodes and industrial clusters, but also as hubs of energy and facilitators of military mobility, Europe’s ports are enablers of the European Union’s important transitions and ambitions. (....)