In its annual PSC report for 2019, the USCG provided an update on its QUALSHIP 21 program, which ended calendar year 2019 with 2,936 vessels enrolled. By the end of 2019, 51 ships received the E-Zero designation.
Despite the decrease in total detentions in 2019, four flag administrations lost their eligibility while two additional flags, Cyprus and the Republic of Korea, became eligible.
On the contrary, in 2018, USCG welcomed nine flag administrations into the program with only one losing their...