Performance

The St. Kitts and Nevis Registry is pleased with its recent promotion to the Paris MoU Grey List and hopes to build upon this development over the next few years.

A spokesperson for the flag reports:

Paris MoU performance highlights SKANReg progress

Regs4Ships senior consultant Paul Owen wrote a recent feature for Safety at Sea examining the effectiveness of MoU lists as tools for targeting vessels over the past decade.

Owen's article is featured as follows.

The International Chamber of Shipping has published its 2013-2014 Flag State Performance Table.

The Marshall Islands Registry, already a longstanding member of the Paris MoU White List, is taking action to even further improve its standards.

TradeWinds reports:

Comoros' Register of Ships has been brought into the limelight for an alleged lack of transparency regarding its fleet's size and whereabouts.

A feature in Fairplay reports:

Building upon eight percent fleet growth in 2012 and a recent promotion to the Paris and Tokyo MoU Grey Lists, the Belize registry is offering incentives to attract quality tonnage.

IMMARBE will offer a 25% discount to ships that experience no detentions within a calendar year and extend that discount to 35% to vessels that remain detention free for two or more years.

Liberia has issued the following statement on how flag states should be evaluated, particularly in terms of challenging the assumptions and terminology associated with type of registry.

PRESS RELEASE

The International Chamber of Shipping has released its 2012 Flag State Performance Table.