SUB-STANDARD SHIPPING
April 1st, 2002
Keith NuthallTHE MARITIME transport committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has agreed that global guidelines should be drawn up which would allow legal negligence to be established when shipowners and charterers have taken advantage of sub-standard vessels.Committee members also agreed that irresponsible operators "must be detected and held accountable, and must not be permitted by the international system to profit unfairly" from using unsafe ships.Said an OCED statement: "Those who operate or use sub-standard ships in ...
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