Liberia is the fastest growing major open registry in 2018 in both the shipping and offshore sectors, according to leading shipping services provider Clarksons in its Clarksons World Fleet Monitor June 2018.
The Republic of Liberia has responded to the needs of shipowners and the ship financing and legal community by amending Liberian maritime law to allow lease financing structures to be recorded as mortgages.
LISCR has underlined its commitment to protecting the welfare of seafarers on the occasion of the International Maritime Organization’s Day of the Seafarer, which this year takes ‘seafarer wellbeing’, and mental health in particular, as its theme.
The Liberian Registry has confirmed its support for an initiative by Australia calling on the IMO to reconsider transparency and the role of industry bodies in the organisation.
The Liberian Registry has agreed a framework co-operation MoU with the China Classification Society (CCS) as the latest step in its strategy to collaborate effectively with its long-term key industry stakeholders.
The Liberian Registry has seen a 62 percent reduction in vessel detentions in the United States over the past three years and, for the fifteenth year in a row, is not among those flags targeted by the USCG
Liberian Registry, NAMEPA, Netherlands-based ProSea Marine Education, and MTS of Seattle, Washington, have jointly developed a ground-breaking marine environmental awareness training program for seafarers and shoreside staff.
LIBERIA has been re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a position it has held continuously since 2012.
The innovative ε-ORB produced by LISCR, in co-operation with Cyprus-based maritime technology company, Prevention at Sea, has received two more prestigious industry awards.