Tag: Liberia

The Liberian Registry announced that has passed the historic milestone of 150 million gross tons, confirming its position as the second largest ship registry in the world, behind Panama, in terms of numbers of ships and gross tonnage.

The Liberia Maritime Authority has issued marine advisory which provides information regarding the implementation of the UN sanctions imposed against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The Panama-flagged oil tanker Tamaya 1 drifted ashore mysteriously on a beach near Robertsport, northern Liberia coast, on May 4 with no sign of captain or crew.

2.03 % detention rate based on 82 detentions arising from 4,046 inspections Liberia has been confirmed as the best-performing major ship registry worldwide over the last three years in the latest statistics from the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control.The Paris MoU statistics confirm that Liberia had the best detention rate during the last three years of those registries with more than 100,000 gt of shipping under their flag. Liberia's detention rate was 2.03 per cent, based on 82 detentions arising from 4,046 inspections. This positions it well ahead of the Marshall Islands, which had a detention rate of 2.50 per cent based on 63 detentions of 2,521 vessels inspected. Panama was in third place, with a detention rate of 4.89 per cent, resulting from 305 detentions out of 6,238 inspections.Liberia also recently received its QUALSHIP (Quality Shipping for the 21st Century) certification for 2014 from the United States Coast Guard. Only a small percentage of foreign-flag ships calling at US ports are admitted to the QUALSHIP programme, based on the excellence of their port state control record. Designated ships are recognised and rewarded by the USCG for their commitment to safety and quality. The USCG has ...

The ISM Code should be the last regulation from IMO, says Scott Bergeron, CEO, LISCR The Liberian Registry has called on shipping regulators to ensure the effective implementation of existing rules to protect human life, safety and the environment, rather than creating new rules and regulations instead.Scott Bergeron, CEO of the Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry, the US-based manager of the Liberian Registry, says, It is the job of ship registries and other regulators to ensure the effective, efficient and practical implementation of rules and regulations. Unfortunately, the entire industry does not operate in this way. There are other regulators who are not enforcing the rules effectively and this is really troublesome because the result of ineffective implementation is yet more regulation. I think the industry already has enough regulations, and creating new ones just as a political or public reaction to accidents is very short-sighted.Bergeron describes as critical and appropriate the decision of IMO to choose International Conventions Effective Implementation as the theme for World Maritime Day 2014. He says, The ISM Code should be the last regulation from IMO, because every new requirement, whether political, environmental or safety-related, could be incorporated into ISM. We dont need new ...

94% of Liberian flagged ships achieve MLC compliance Ninety-four per cent of qualifying Liberian-flag ships have achieved successful Maritime Labour Convention 2006 compliance, just one week after the convention entered force, putting Liberia far ahead of any other international ship registry.MLC 2006 certification is a multi-step process. The first step involves the issuing of a Declaration of Maritime Labour Compliance (DMLC) Part 1 at the request of the owner. This is followed by the owner's submission of DMLC Part 2 for approval. In the case of Liberia, which has opted not to delegate flag state inspection to classification societies, this means approval by the Liberian flag. Thereafter, the vessel is inspected and the certificate duly issued to compliant ships.The Liberian-flag fleet is the second largest in the world and includes 3,215 ships to which MLC 2006 applies. To date, DMLC Part 2 has been accepted in respect of 3,016 Liberian-flag ships, equating to 94 per cent of the qualifying Liberian fleet. Liberia has issued 1,464 MLC 2006 certificates. It has also issued 3,084 DMLC Part I documents. The certification process meanwhile continues apace. Liberia was the first flag state to ratify MLC 2006, and one of the first to adopt ...

LISCR appoints Christian Mollitor as new Vice-President

Liberia: Time for Openness on Ship Registries

Document was submitted to the IMO including major concerns over BWMS Concerns over the IMO's Ballast Water Convention (BWM) have been expressed by leading shipping organisations to the IMO ahead of this October's MEPC 64 meeting.A document was submitted to the IMO endorsed by Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Panama, BIMCO, INTERTANKO, CLIA, INTERCARGO, InterManager, IPTA, NACE and WSC.As has been raised at previous MEPC meetings, there are a number of issues that are affecting ratification and implementation of the BWM Convention that need to be addressed by the MEPC and the IMO member states to ensure proper and effective implementation of the convention.The major concerns of the authors are as follows:1) Need for revision of the Guidelines for approval of ballast water management systems (G8) to improve transparency and ensure appropriate robustness of ballast water management systems (BWMS).2) Availability of BWMS and sufficient facilities to install BWMS.3) Survey and certification requirements for ships constructed prior to entry into force of the BWM Convention.4) sampling and analysis procedures for port State control purposes.In June 2012, there were 23 type approved BWMS on the market; 25 BWMS have been approved in total with two BWMS having been withdrawn from the market by ...

Far East has agreed to hire the first batch of 16 Liberian seafarers Singaporean shipping company in the Far East has agreed to hire the first batch of 16 Liberian seafarers on eight of its vessels plying international waters with Liberians flags.NOS Ship-Management is an ISO-9001: 2008 certified ship management company, operating in Singapore and Panama controlling Liberian flag vessels, which include oil tankers, bulk carriers and other cargo vessels.During a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed Tuesday between the NOS Shipping Company of Singapore and the United Seamen Ports & General Workers Union of Liberia (USPOGUL), Seafarers Section, the President of Seafarers Section of Liberia, Mother T. Kpumeh said Liberians seafarers could start getting hired as early as January 2012."We are calling on all Liberian Flag state ships to emulate the good example of the NOS Shipping Company for providing employment for the Liberian Seafarers. We hope that this process will continue in order to have more than 3,000 Liberian seafarers employed on board sea going vessels plying the Liberian Flag," Kpumeh said.After fourteen years of unemployment of Liberian seafarers, she noted: "This was a great opportunity for Liberian seafarers that one of the shipping companies from the Far East ...