These rights apply to passengers travelling in the EU on large ferries and cruise ships on sea, rivers, lakes or canals.

It has been calculated by Stats Canada that pilotage costs for vessel trading in the Great Lakes represents only 2% to 4% of the total cost to ship the merchandise in and out of the Great Lakes.

When the Pilotage Act was enacted in 1972, the Great Lakes and that would be Montreal westbound right up to the head of the lakes was designated mandatory pilotage for every vessel, except.It was recognized that the domestic shipowners and the domestic officers had qualifications.

25. Calls for the establishment of special zones in respect of ecologically sensitive and navigationally difficult areas in the Baltic, in particular the Cadet Channel, the Skagerrak/Kattegatt, the Great Belt and the Sound, which may no longer be traversed by ocean-going vessels, primarily oil tankers, without a pilot, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to take the necessary steps to that end in the competent international bodies, in particular the IMO; in this context, views the designation of these areas as a 'particularly sensitive sea area' - PSSA - as a possible measure;

First, if I had to define the budget and describe it, I would say that it is a budget without any conclusion, without any direction and without any real resolution of the major problem that Canadians are facing, a major problem that is only being enhanced and encouraged by the government (1330) When I say that there is no conclusion, I think of the Minister of Finance in his former responsibility in his private life where he had a fleet of boats on the Great Lakes.