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Maritime Flags of Convenience Visualized

Started by gcaptain · 3 months ago

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With the recent LNG News I decided to get to work on some maritime visualizations. Above is a bubble graph I created representing the number of ships registered to each flag state.

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Tim
1 year ago

Very clever bubble visualisation! I worked in LNG ships registered in Liberia and Bermuda, both operated by BP. The professionalism of the operation was never in any jeopardy despite the FOC flying from the stern, I wonder can the same be said today with the explosion(pardon the metaphor) in the LNG trade.

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John
1 year ago

I also work on a foreign flagged ship (Marshal Islands) that is tops on safety... but I have also seen other ships of my flag that are in a poor state. Seems to all hinge on the operator.

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