Tag: Flag States

Nautilus International and Swiss Shipowners Association have jointly appealed to the Swiss government to intervene in order to preserve the Swiss flag within the shipping industry.

The U.S. Coast Guard has presented a list of flag States which have successfully met specified safety, regulatory, and quality requirements of the Qualship21 Program, when calling ports in the United States.

As the Union of Greek Shipowners reports, Greece remains the top ship-owning nation in the world, as Greek shipowners with 5,514 ships currently control approximately 21% of the global fleet, in terms of capacity.

The INTERCARGO Benchmarking Bulk Carriers 2022-2023 report has been published, which evaluates the bulk carrier industry through various performance indicators.

The maritime intelligence consultancies TM Tracking and I.R. Consilium published a report examining both how foreign fishing operators are accessing and exploiting African flag registries for their fishing vessels in pursuit of legal impunity, and how weaknesses in African flagging regimes attract this exploitation.

According to the IMO, that there have been several cases in the past, related to the fraudulent use of a country's flag, and/or to the fraudulent operation of a registry without the purported flag country's permission or knowledge.

Again in 2021, the number of ships flying the Danish flag set a record. In fact, 779 ships are flying the Danish flag, an increase of 2.6%.

All Panamanian-flagged vessels transiting or visiting Panamanian ports, prior to their arrival to the US, must conduct a Flag Annual Safety Inspection (ASI) as soon as they arrive at any port or terminal in Panama, the Maritime Authority announced.

In 2020, US Coast Guard Marine Inspectors conducted 18,414 inspections on US-flagged vessels and identified 27,087 deficiencies, resulting in 63 Flag State detentions, according to the USCG 2020 Flag State Control Domestic Annual Report.

Panama Maritime Authority has decided that is compulsory that all Panamanian flag vessels with Priority 1 in Paris MoU Inspection and Selection Scheme, that arrive at any port in Italy, to Conduct a Flag annual safety inspection (ASI) as soon as they arrive.