Negli ultimi giorni, sono stato in tournée lungo il Danubio. Sia a Budapest che ora a Novi Sad, ho notato che alcune di queste navi sono registrate a Basilea.
Perché è quello? Certo, è una città svizzera con un porto. Ma è anche economico? O perché hanno scelto Basilea, tra tutti i luoghi?
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di alexs77
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Basel is the home port of the Merchant Marine of Switzerland.
(and it _is_ actually connected to the sea, in a navigable way)
Switzerland has the largest merchant fleet of any landlocked country:
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweizer_Hochseeschifffahrt
Aren’t these cruise ships, connecting from Basel to Budapest? They make use of canals between some of the major rivers. According to Google, it would be 16-day cruise, through five countries.
Switzerland is also the largest container ship nation 😆
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multinational-companies/switzerland-now-the-largest-container-shipping-nation-in-the-world/88994014
Yes, MSC Cruises is headquartered in Basel.
Nearly non of these ships have ever seen Basel.
The mother companies are in Switzerland and therefor all these ships are registered in Switzerland.
This register is only in Basel so the ‘Mutterhafen’ is Basel.
These is also for smaller boats going outside of Switzerland.
We have a 15 Meter boat in the Netherlands with Basel on it.
The open sea ends at the Mittlere Brücke in Basel. At least in a figurative sense. Up to this point, the river is considered international waters with free shipping traffic all the way to the North Sea. This means that not only all ships travelling abroad under the Swiss flag are registered in Basel.