A flag of convenience (FOC) vessel is one that flies the flag of a country other than the country of ownership. Ships must be registered with a single country, even though they often operate in ...

Some of the Barbados ships have already been re-registered with other nations including Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Two ship registries are kicking 114 sanctioned tankers off their books following the widening of sanctions against the ...

The International Shipping Register of Madeira (MAR) has officially reached 1,000 registered vessels, marking a key moment in the growth of Portugal's flag within Europe. In the 11 years since ...

Yet a third of the world's shipping tonnage carries the Liberian flag, some 1,900 vessels; most of those ships, as well as numerous ships flying the flags of nations other than Liberia ...

(Bloomberg) -- A chunk of Russia’s oil tanker fleet is being forced to change the flag they sail under as US and UK sanctions heap pressure on Moscow’s shipping network. The Barbados ship ...

A Ukrainian-controlled general cargo ship has been barred from European ports after failing a series of port state safety ...