EU Allowances Applicability
Here’s a quick rundown of some regions that qualify as EU ports:
- EU Territory: All ports within the European Union.
- Outermost Regions: Açores, Madeira, Canarias,
- Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martinique, Mayotte,
- Saint Martin, and Reunion.
- Norway: All ports except those on Svalbard.
- Iceland: All ports.
Excluded:
Among others, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna.
Operations
- Cargo operations or in transshipment in an EU area or in transit via an EU port
Excluded:
- Bunkering: When your ship only stops at a port to refuel.
- Supplies: When your ship only stops at a port to get supplies.
- Crew Relief: When your ship only stops at a port for crew change.
- Repairs: When your ship only stops at a port to conduct repairs.
- Distress or Assistance: When your ship stops at a port due to an emergency.
- In other words, only ports where cargo is loaded or unloaded, or where passengers embark or disembark, are considered ports of call under the EU MRV.