The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) participated in another meeting of the informal shipping group in the North Sea on the 2nd of July 2020. The participants of the fourth meeting of this group are representatives from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.
At this meeting the current draft plans of the respective countries were presented. The focus was on the coherence of shipping routes. Within the framework of this group, possible further steps were also discussed. This includes, e.g. the possibility of identifying possible routing measures.