Policies to promote shipping registration in Singapore

• Main Authors: PHANG, Sock Yong, TOH, Rex S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1994
• Subjects: Ship registration; Flag of convenience; Ship registration policies; Singapore; Asian Studies; Economics; Transportation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2016; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3015/viewcontent/PoliciesPromoteShippingRegistration_1994.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

An analysis traces the development of ship registration in Singapore and examines the underlying motivation behind changes in policies over the last 3 decades. For the better part of the 1970s Singapore was classified as a flag of convenience (FOC) country as it pursued an FOC policy that emphasized...