By Gola Traub
Telling a long, serpentine but successful story in an abridged form tends to prove challenging, intimidating, if not plainly impossible. This piece, however, attempts to do just that – narrate Liberia’s maritime story in a truncated form – a brief history that covers the evolution of the Liberia Open Registry from 1948 to 2011. (2012 up to 2019 – and the “best way forward” will be tackled in the next edition of the Marine Monitor.)
Washington – The Liberia Maritime Authority is proud to have engaged former US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Rep. Ed Royce, in order to have him serve as a policy advisor on the Liberian program.
By: Gola Traub
Since its inception, the business philosophy – the fundamental principle that underpins the formation and operation of the open registry model – has been fiercely and relentlessly impugned as a poor-quality business model designed to steal Westerners’ jobs and avoid stringent international shipping regulations. Seemingly, however, nothing could be further from the truth.
By Gola Traub
Maritime transport runs as the lifeblood of global trade, but the penchant for globalization to erase national barriers and create competitive labor markets of all sorts - and the desire of some ship owners for a more lax and cheaper operating regime has brought a huge and growing sector of the ocean transport business into direct conflict with Western traditional maritime powers.
The Liberia Maritime Authority and the Ministry of Agriculture signed a Communique to collaborate and cooperate for the effective imlementation of both parties' statutory mandates on Thursday, April 13, 2017 .
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