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ICS publishes latest Flag State Performance Table

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published its latest Flag State Performance Table comparing the records of the world’s different flag states against a number of criteria such as port state control records, ratification of international maritime Conventions and attendance at IMO meetings.

Bob Jaques, Former Editor

February 22, 2017

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Changes to the methodology of this year’s table include no longer giving a negative indicator against flags not make the US Qualship 21 programme, since the list of flag states qualifying “now varies considerably from year to year,” explains ICS director of policy & external relations Simon Bennett.

Overall, this year’s table “continues to highlight the sound performance of all of the world’s major flag administrations, regardless of whether they are open registers or so called ‘traditional’ maritime flags,” he adds.

An important development over the past year has been that the IMO Member State Audit Scheme became mandatory from the beginning of 2016. For next year’s table ICS therefore intends to add a new field indicating whether a flag has undergone that audit or not.

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About the Author

Bob Jaques

Former Editor

Bob Jaques is a former editor of Seatrade Maritime Review magazine and has over 20 years of experience as a maritime journalist and moderator of shipping conferences.

Bob is an English literature graduate from the University of York with a postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. He worked as an aerospace and media journalist in Geneva before joining Seatrade in the 1990s.

Bob is a past winner of the Seahorse ‘Journalist of the Year’ and ‘Best Feature Article’ Awards.

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