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Despite that, Greece has the largest shipping fleet among the traditional maritime nations and ranks behind only the open registry Liberian and Panamanian fleets.
Parts of such a shipping-friendly scheme in combination with a U.S.-based open registry policy may further strengthen the shipping milieu that already exists in this country.
GOP said the new portal is part of its initiative in its groundwork to prepare Bahrain's Ship Registry as an
open registry thereby facilitating ships to sail under the Bahraini flag.
However, from the earliest days there has been opposition to FOC shipping, and lately the disenchantment over this questionable form of
open registry has led to the potentially rapid growth of what can be termed as quasi-FOC arrangements.
He added that the shipping industry in Cyprus is not expected to be affected by any negative developments in Greece and that the island is the only
open registry in the Eurozone meaning that it is not just Cypriot ship owners that are allowed to register ships.
"As you are aware, Cyprus constitutes a fully EU approved "
Open Registry", 85% of which, belongs to Northern European beneficial interests.