Weak Legal Enforcement and Corruption: Even when violators are apprehended, weak legal follow-through and corruption enable them to evade substantial penalties. The lack of transparency in prosecution ...

Liberia was founded with support from slaveholders and abolitionists for various reasons, marking a unique historical moment.

Greece, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Liberia (the largest), Malta ... and a strict commitment to global maritime regulation. Four Flag States have been included in the Table this year for the first ...

The successful tracking of “dark shipping” would need the LRIT system to improve, be cheaper to use and have a more robust audit to ensure that flag states respond to periods when ships go off-grid.

In a moment that captivated the congregation, Primate Ayodele presented Weah with a Liberian flag, apparently symbolizing his return to power. Declaring him the "incoming President of Liberia ...

President Donald Trump’s new secretary of commerce has vowed to tax foreign-­flagged ships making calls to U.S. ports.

National globalism is wily that way. It uses foreignness and territorial indeterminacy to its advantage. And no nation has mastered it better than the country Trump sees as America’s most threatening ...

The debate around taxation of cruise operators has been around for years. What would the impact be on the cruise lines?

US sanctions part of efforts to cut Iran’s crude exports to zero & prevent country from advancing its nuclear programme.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick called out the cruise industry during a Fox News interview on Feb. 19, saying "none ...

Also in February, the 50,000-dwt Liberia-flagged MR Grace Ferrum (built 2013) was damaged off Libya and a Russian-owned ...