ship registration

German ship manager and operator Reederei NSB is considering transferring its nationally flagged vessels to other registries if economic conditions don't become more favorable for domestic registration.

Lloyd's List reports:

Class NK has signed its first German flagged vessel and received expanded capabilities to survey German flagged ships.

The classification society reports:

Mauritius has ratified the Maritime Labor Convention and Nigeria is preparing to implement the convention effective June 18th.

Fairplay reports:

Don Frost, author of the May editorial "The Fall of U.S. International Shipping 1960-1990" has continued his piece in the June issue of the Connecticut Maritime Association newsletter, posted as follows.

A recent edition of Seatrade magazine profiles Bahrain as a burgeoning maritime center.

Restructured maritime sector

Paul Bartlett reports from Bahrain on the country's latest maritime consolidation and other shipping developments 

In a feature published by Maritime Professional, US Deputy Maritime Administrator Paul "Chip" Jaenichen spoke about domestic and international policies, including the Jones Act, as cited in the following excerpt from the article:

More than Advocacy: Incentives

The Panama Martime Authority has launched a first of its kind digital inspection data collecting system, recently described in a March 2014 Fairplay article.

Flag leads from the front

Partners at the Düsseldorf based firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek recently published an article for industry news outlet TradeWinds regarding ship financing schemes available in Germany. The OGSR has reprinted this article as follows.

Gearbulk Holding has announced intentions to relocate its operations and company registration to Switzerland in what appears to be a continuing trend toward consolidation.