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 ...

Norwegian authorities detained the Silver Dania vessel with a Russian crew on Jan. 30 on suspicion of it damaging an undersea ...

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

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

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will step up the surveillance and management of ships carrying flags of convenience, including boarding them, after a Chinese-linked cargo vessel was suspected of damaging an ...