Artikel V

The Contracting Parties agree to promote the development of international shipping services. In doing so they shall maintain free and normal competitive conditions. Either Contracting Party shall refrain from taking any discriminatory measures against, and from restricting the free participation in international traffic of, vessels operated by enterprises of which the place of effective management is situated in the territory and flying the flag of the other Contracting Party.
From this arrangement shall be excepted fishery and coastal shipping in the non-European parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to which only the internal regulations of these parts of the Kingdom shall apply, and fishery and coastal shipping in the Sudan.
Either Contracting Party shall accord in its ports to the vessels flying the flag of the other Contracting Party the same treatment as it accords to its own vessels. This provision applies to custom formalities, the collection of taxes, port fees and port charges, the free entry into ports, the assignment of berths, facilities for loading and unloading, and to all other facilities accorded to shipping and to economic activities in connection with vessels, their crews, their passengers and the cargoes they carry.