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PRESS RELEASE 01/15                                                                                           

15 January, 2015

Our friends at the UK Maritime & Coast Guard Agency have issued a very useful Marine Information Note providing details about the convention and how to obtain the required certificate for UK flag vessels. Especially useful were instructions for vessels that are not required to have an International Tonnage (69) certificate.

From the IMO website

The following from the opening paragraph of our friends at Moore Stephens Winter 2015 newsletter Bottom Line says it all.

Our colleague Raimonds Vingris, head of the Latvian Ship Register has sent us an update for the OGSR entry. Check it out.

The draft guidelines are open for comment until Jan. 23, 2015 and appear to be primarily an effort to open more training slots aboard Indian flagged vessels.

Draft guidelines are available here.

11 December 2014

Shipping confidence drops to two-year low as concern mounts over cost of regulation

They threatened back in June and are know acting. From our colleagues at Seatrade-Global

The German flag is to lose its largest ship manager by the end of June 2017 as Reederei NSB's flags-out its fleet of 38 containerships by the deadline, with the layoff of 486 onboard personnel.

We thought our subscribers might be interested in a recent discussion as to the history of and continued debate about the Jones Act (aka the Merchant Marine Act of 1920). Here's the link to the video. 

http://www.heritage.org/events/2014/12/jones-act-vs-free-markets

Our friends at Blank Rome brought the following to our attention - Action Item: U.S.