We buying German ships at scrap prices is being a freeloader?
The German shipowners are bankrupt, they invested billions into an industry they will never understand and lost it all.
Now the German shipowners association is pushing for the EU (Germany) to increase the tax on Greek shipowners out of spite, despite the Germans having similar tax breaks at home. So we will move to Monaco, UK and Singapore, which will cost the EU as a whole since it loses its commercial fleet (Another example of Germans being unable to emotionally forecast, same as what happened in both world wars).