Hi Bob,
interesting thread from you.
In general I am with you. I like to have as well to have the data of the vessels, the most important is date of built and tonnage and the history of the ship, which I always put in my postings.
But with the owner, manager,...... owner I have often problems.
Like for example a photo I will post during the next weeks the bulker Tufty.
Sea-Web is distinguishing between Group Owner, Operator, Manager, Registerd Owner, DOC. And for every column you find a different name.
Tufty for example has:
Group Owner Navarone SA
Operator Canfornav Inc.
Manager Navarone SA
Registered Owner Taboga Shg. Co Ltd.
DOC Navarone SA Panama
First I still do not know, what DOC means, and then you find at least 3 different companys, sometimes all are different. All these companys do not say anything ot me, and from Seaweb I cannot find out, what is the real company behind the vessel. So why disturbing the others which such informations. How I loved the good old years, when it was really easy to find the companies behind the ships, without looking into Lloyds registers and getting confused by so many different companies mentioned.
For this I do not post any company names.
I hope you understand me a bit.
Gerolf