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  • Funny Flags and Australian Shipping

    Author(s)
    Brennan, Russell Dominick
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Brennan, Russell D.
    Year published
    2000
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    Abstract
    A merchant ship may be owned by an individual or by a company of one state, managed by a ship management company of a second state and registered in a third state. The ship may then be sub-chartered, possibly under a bareboat charter agreement, to a company of yet another state and crewed by officers and ratings from a wide variety of different countries. The ship may then sail between states totally unconnected with the ship owners, the ship management company, the state where the ship is registered, or the crew. This web of internationalisation has contributed to the demise of metropolitan merchant fleets. Russell Brennan ...
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    A merchant ship may be owned by an individual or by a company of one state, managed by a ship management company of a second state and registered in a third state. The ship may then be sub-chartered, possibly under a bareboat charter agreement, to a company of yet another state and crewed by officers and ratings from a wide variety of different countries. The ship may then sail between states totally unconnected with the ship owners, the ship management company, the state where the ship is registered, or the crew. This web of internationalisation has contributed to the demise of metropolitan merchant fleets. Russell Brennan explains the phenomenon of the "Flags of Convenience" ships (FOCs) and highlights some of their adverse impacts upon national shipping fleets and registers - including those of Australia
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    Journal Title
    News Weekly
    Volume
    2586
    Publisher URI
    http://www.newsweekly.com.au/article.php?id=193
    Subject
    Sociology not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/63961
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