Tag: Flag State Performance Table

Cayman Registry has been acknowledged, for the sixth year running as one of the world’s leading flags. It is one of the flag states who have received such distinction in this year’s performance table by ICS.

The new ICS Flag State Performance Table for 2016/2017 continues to highlight the sound performance of all of the world’s major flag administrations, regardless of whether they are open registers or so called ‘traditional’ maritime flags. An important development in this period is that participation by maritime administrations in the IMO Member State Audit Scheme became mandatory in 2016.

Six government officials from South Korea are visiting the Danish Maritime Authority and, in this connection, they exchange experiences and knowledge about shipping, inspections and safety with the Danish authorities.

The new ICS Flag State Performance Table for 2015/2016 draws the attention to the impressive number of positive indicators that are now being achieved by those flag states which are used by the vast majority of ship operators.

A number of smaller flag states still have considerable work to do The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published its annual Shipping Industry Flag State Performance Table.ICS Secretary General, Peter Hinchliffe remarked "The very largest flag states, such as the Bahamas, Liberia and the Marshall Islands, as well as Hong Kong, Singapore, Cyprus and Greece, all continue to demonstrate very impressive levels of performance, as do all of the other large European and Asian flags."Given the nature of the indicators that ICS uses, whether or not a flag is missing one or two green squares on the ICS Table may not be especially important. For example, the fact that a certain IMO Convention may not have been ratified by a flag state does not necessarily mean that its requirements are not being implemented in practice. Amongst the 19 largest ships registers, covering more than 85% of the world fleet, none have more than three potential indicators of negative performance.However, there are a number of smaller flag states that still have considerable work to do, and ICS continues to suggest that shipowners may wish think very carefully about using such flags. The largest of these is Tanzania, but Mongolia, Moldova, ...

Latest ICS table requires flag states to have ratified the ILO MLC for positive indicator The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has launched its latest 'Shipping Industry Flag State Performance Table'ICS Director External Relations, Simon Bennett explained: "The ICS table is intended to encourage shipowners to maintain a dialogue with their flag administrations to help bring about any improvements that might be necessary in the interests of safety, the environment and decent working conditions."Following the entry into force of the ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) in August 2013, the latest ICS table now requires flag states to have ratified the ILO MLC in order to receive a positive indicator."The level of ratification of this important new ILO Convention as of the end of December is impressive," said Mr Bennett. "However, those flag states that have not yet ratified the MLC but had previously ratified ILO Convention 147, have now received a negative indicator on our table with respect to ILO standards for the first time. But we hope and expect this situation to change this year as more and more flags finalise ratification of this core Convention before PSC enforcement of the MLC begins in earnest this August."Minor changes have ...

ICS published today the latest Flag State Performance Table including information that might be helpful in assessing the performance of flag states

ICS Updates Flag State Performance Table