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Whose ship is this? Depends who is asking
At the quayside in Buenos Aires, watching a boxship unload back in 1999, I asked the agent "who does this ship belong to?" He answered "I don't know". Notions of ownership in shipping have always been vague and fluid and this has been starkly
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Maritime Watch Monitor, 29 July 2026
The European Commission is proposing to admit two Indian shipbreaking yards to its approved list, and both of them beach their ships. Shree Ram and YSI Recyclers, at Alang, run vessels onto the shore rather than break them up alongside a built quay, the method that has kept Alang off
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Maritime Watch Monitor, 22 July 2026
The European Commission has finally proposed the defence Europe's ports spent three years demanding, while still declining to concede that the danger it guards against is real. Its proposed revision of the maritime ETS, published on 17 July, would widen the blacklist of neighbouring non-EU ports whose
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