Richard Burden – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2016-01-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department’s guidance is on shipping flags it considers unsafe or dangerous to sail under; and how often that guidance is updated.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The Department does not issue its own guidance. The selection of a shipping register (flag State) is a commercial decision for ship owners.
However, owners can take account of the assessment of a flag State’s performance. The flag’s performance is published in the annual Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) report on Port State Control. These reports can be found on the Paris MoU website at
https://www.parismou.org/publications-category/annual-reports.
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