Flag State Responsibility Historical Development and Contemporary Issues /

• Main Author: Mansell, John N. K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Law.; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92933-8

The historical development of tonnage, ship registration, classification societies and national and international law for flag State responsibility is recounted, along with the large increase in numbers of non-traditional flag States and classification societies over the past fifty years. The Law of...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Concept of The Flag State
• Registration of Ships
• Development of National Law for Flag State Responsibility
• Development of International Law for Flag State Responsibility
• Choice of Flag State
• The Regulatory Regime for Discharge of Flag State Duties: The Role of Classification Societies
• Measures of Flag State Administrative and Social Performance
• Measures of Flag State Technical Performance
• Issues of Flag State Responsibility and Proposed Remedies
• National Legislation (Chronological Order)
• International Instruments (Chronological Order)
• IMO Documents.