After spending the past year concealing their identity through changing their vessels' names and flags, Iranian shipping companies are being left with little choice but to return to their domestic register.
World City America, home of the American Flagship Project, has written to US President Barack Obama encouraging him to reconsider legislation currently prohibiting the financing of nationally-flagged overnight passenger vessels.
After spending over a month at sea without a port of destination, it has been confirmed that the MSC Flaminia will be destined for sheltered anchorage in German territorial waters of the North Sea.
An absence of clear guidelines regarding refuge for vessels found stranded in international waters has left the German ship MSC Flaminia without a port of destination since it experienced a fire onboard over one month ago.
Sierra Leone and Moldova, identified along with Tanzania and Tuvalu as flag states having been approached by Iranian shipping companies, have confirmed they have delisted all Iranian vessels.
