Tag: Liberia

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 ...

IMO Council It has been nearly 15 years since Liberia lost her seat on the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). That all ended on Friday, November 25, 2011, when 107 of the 155 certified voting Member States of the IMO, voted Liberia back on to the Council (the IMO comprises 170 Member States). This marks a historic milestone in the Country's drive to take its rightful place in the International Maritime Community.The Council is the Executive Organ of IMO and is responsible, under the Assembly, for supervising the work of the Organization. Between sessions of the Assembly, the Council performs all the functions of the Assembly, except the function of making recommendations to Governments on Maritime Safety and Pollution Prevention which is reserved for the Assembly by Article 15(j) of the Convention.Other functions of the Council are to: (a) Co-ordinate the activities of the organs of the Organization; (b) consider the draft work program and budget estimates of the Organization and submit them to the Assembly; (c) receive reports and proposals of the Committees and other organs and submit them to the Assembly and Member States, with comments and recommendations as appropriate; (d) appoint the Secretary-General, subject to ...

Liberia is satisfied with the excellent work of the Organization His Excellency Dr. Toga Gayewea McIntosh, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Liberia met with IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos at IMO Headquarters (on Wednesday, 15 June).In welcoming the Minister and his delegation, which included His Excellency Mr. Wesley M. Johnson, Ambassador of Liberia to the United Kingdom; Her Excellency Mrs. Ethel Davis, Ambassador of Liberia to Germany; and His Excellency Mr. Alexander Wallace, Ambassador of Liberia to Egypt, Secretary-General Mitropoulos expressed his appreciation for Liberia's long-standing support to the work of the Organization and its exemplary record in the ratification of the majority of the numerous treaties developed by the Organization.Mr. Mitropoulos also commended Liberia for the sustained safety record of its merchant fleet and for maintaining the development of its maritime infrastructure as one of its priorities, citing as examples the fully-functioning Regional Marine Rescue Coordination Centre (RMRCC), which was inaugurated, in Monrovia, in 2009, and the full revitalization of the Liberian Maritime Training Institute (LMTI), which reopened its doors to maritime students and became fully operational this year, after closing in 1990 due to the civil unrest in the country.In his remarks, Minister McIntosh reiterated ...