The United Arab Emirates has banned Eswatini-flagged ships from entering the country, having banned Cameroon-registered ships earlier in the year. The Eswatini flag have been involved in the growing, so-called shadow or dark fleets transporting sanctioned oil. Eswatini, the landlocked southern...
https://splash247.com/uae-bans-eswatini-flagged-ships-from-entering-the-country/
This week, I want to look at how the shipping industry can overcome some of its biggest challenges – not greenhouse gases and climate change, nor sexism and homophobia, but the problems of abandoned crews, excessively long tours of duty, and the low safety standards that bedevil the wider maritime...
Two shipping registries that have been making plenty of Splash headlines this year have been added to the list of flags of convenience (FOC) tallied by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). Gabon and Eswatini – both flags strongly associated with so-called dark fleet transportation...
https://splash247.com/gabon-and-eswatini-registers-added-to-itfs-flags-of-convenience-list/
Ahead of this week’s meeting of its legal committee, the secretariat at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has warned about two shipping registries it deems are fraudulent. Flags being administered allegedly on behalf of Guyana and Eswatini have come in for criticism. Despite the...
https://splash247.com/imo-highlights-two-fraudulent-shipping-registries/