Flagging Standards
Subtitle: Globalization and Environmental, Safety, and Labor Regulations at Sea
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: September 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780262541909
Subjects: Pollution of seas & oceans; Shipping industries; Political Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Politics/International Relations; Maritime; Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Globalization; Government policy; Shipping; Standards
First sentence: On November 11, 2002, the oil tanker Prestige, flying the flag of the Bahamas, under the command of a Greek captain with a crew of Filipinos and Romanians, chartered by a Liberian-registered company based in Switzerland, and probably owned by Russian nati