Playing by the same rules
Court move by Liberian Registry and International Chamber of Shipping clears up key point on enforceability of vessel mortgages
THIS column rarely delves far into the world of ship financing, largely because your columnist knows precious little about the topic, except that unwanted tonnage always seems to attract enough cash to keep upsetting the supply/ demand balance.
However he does know that shipping is a global industry that only works well if everybody plays by the same rules, and that applies to the legal framework surrounding ship financing just as much as it does to, say, emission control or collision regulations.
So there has been some good news on this front. The Liberian Registry says that, in co-operation with the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), it has succeeded in helping the holder of…
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