The Liberian flag now has a 2.2m gt lead over Panama at the top of the registry rankings, its fleet growing by 5.6% so far this year, according to Clarksons. In terms of the number of ships on ...

Thus far, France has refused to take the ship back and argues that the ship is the responsibility of Liberia, as the ship's flag country, or Belgium, as the country where the ship carried out its ...

Commercial ships must be registered, or flagged, with a particular country to ensure they ... confirmed that the Liberian and Marshall Islands flag registries qualify as Western services.