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Summers said the incident came at a time when Australian seafarers were fighting to keep their jobs over flag of convenience crews.

Inquest sought in 'sore throat' death of Filipino aboard ship

ITF has identified thirty-two registries as flag of convenience style

Flags of convenience and the Gulf oil spill: problems and proposed solutions

"Former EU Fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler described flag of convenience states as "a serious menace to today's maritime world".

Mission to prevent 40,000 litres of fuel from stricken cargo ship spilling into sea; VESSEL RUNS AGROUND IN FULL GALE AND ROUGH SEAS

The flag of convenience that waves in the sky can read differently than the totality of the research evidence.

Flags of convenience or banners of obfuscation? Are consumers being told the whole story and are marketers being made aware of all the facts?

The flag of convenience (FOC) system is offered by some 29 maritime flags namely Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Burma (Myanmar), Combodia, Cayman Islands, Comoros, Cyprus, Equatorial Guinea, Germany (Second Register).

Safety culture for shipping industry

Mr Simitis then railed against a recent report in the French daily Le Monde which seriously called into question Greece and Piraeus' shipping sector for the problems caused by flag of convenience pirate ships that create tremendous environmental dangers.

GREEK PREMIER ANXIOUS TO DISPEL "SUSPICIONS" ABOUT OIL TANKER SAFETY

'And then there is the criminal element which is using the protest as nothing more than a flag of convenience for that activity,' he added.

Animal rights group 'behind arson attack'

The offer by the Fisheries Agency concerns the so-called ''flag of convenience'' China-registered tuna-fishing boats that are actually owned by Taiwanese businesses to bypass mandatory catch quotas assigned to tuna-catching nations by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the agency said.

Japan voices readiness to give China 1,000-ton tuna quota

Abbett proceeded to rewrite New Jersey's corporate charter laws to make them a little like a Liberian flag of convenience. Pay the fee and you could do pretty much whatever you wanted.

COLOSSUS: How the Corporation Changed America

WE can hardly turn our noses up at Rivaldo applying for joint nationality so he can fly under a Spanish flag of convenience with Barcelona.

Football: Rivaldo critics are Barc-ing up the wrong tree

"Ships that are registered under a flag of convenience do represent a danger risk, while others are normally safer," says Carsten Gelhaus, the manager for Hamburg-Sud in Santos, Brazil.

Shippers Beware