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Shipspotters all over the world => Shipping News and information => Topic started by: Guest on August 07, 2007, 07:54:29 AM
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Hi All
This article from The Economic Times (India) @
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Transportation/Ships_over_25_years_old_to_be_barred_from_docking_here/articleshow/2261174.cms makes you wonder about the expected longevity of ships. For instance this 25 year rule would mean that the likes of the QE2 wouldn't be permitted to dock in India!
"Ships over 25 years old to be barred from docking here
7 Aug, 2007, 0416 hrs IST,Nirbhay Kumar & Rajat Guha, TNN
NEW DELHI: The government is charting out guidelines to bar entry of aged overseas ships into Indian coasts. Ships aged 25 years and above may soon be disallowed to dock at Indian coasts.
According to a shipping ministry official, 17,000 ships are overage in the world. The policy is being finalised and would be announced soon. Ships with bad track records and Flags Of Convenience (FoC) like Panama (where ships are granted certification without major checks) won
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Typical policy-making from officials who no absolutely nothing about ships or the shipping industry and think that all FoC or old ships are universally bad.
Phil
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I wonder what sort of effect this will have on their ship breaking industry?
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Glenn wrote:
I wonder what sort of effect this will have on their ship breaking industry?
Hi Glenn
Perhaps its a way of generating additiona business for Alang :-x
Regards
Steve Ellwood
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Hi!
I can't help smiling when I read this... We are currently anchored off Visakhapatnam, India, and when I look around I don't see many ships that look to be newer than 15-20 years. If India goes ahead with this (which I think they won't, it's just politics) they won't have much trade. And forbidding FoC flagged ships as well... India already have some of the most stringent cabotage rules (outside USA) in the world and are obviously looking to further these in a non-realistic protectionist move, probably in the hope that all trade to/from India will be with Indian flagged ships. As I look around again I do see quite a few Indian flagged ships here, but the majority seems (as everywhere else in the world) to be FoC flagged. In conlusion, this seems to be a rather naive suggestion by some protectionist politician, who has taken hint from what's going on in the EU... :-x
Also it wouldn't suprise me if this is intended to, in some slightly misdirected way, boost the Indian shipbuilding industry.
BRGDS / foggy
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Hooray for badly-thought-out protectionism!
This would be more damaging than the Jones act.
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foggy wrote:
I can't help smiling when I read this... We are currently anchored off Visakhapatnam, India, and when I look around I don't see many ships that look to be newer than 15-20 years. If India goes ahead with this (which I think they won't, it's just politics) they won't have much trade. And forbidding FoC flagged ships as well... India already have some of the most stringent cabotage rules (outside USA) in the world and are obviously looking to further these in a non-realistic protectionist move, probably in the hope that all trade to/from India will be with Indian flagged ships. As I look around again I do see quite a few Indian flagged ships here, but the majority seems (as everywhere else in the world) to be FoC flagged. In conlusion, this seems to be a rather naive suggestion by some protectionist politician, who has taken hint from what's going on in the EU... :-x
Also it wouldn't suprise me if this is intended to, in some slightly misdirected way, boost the Indian shipbuilding industry.
BRGDS / foggy
Hi Foggy
Thought you might be interested in this piece from The Economic Times @
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Shipping__Transport/Shipping_ministry_plans_to_allow_foreign_crew_on_Indian_ships/articleshow/2282169.cms
Shipping ministry plans to allow foreign crew on Indian ships
Shipping ministry plans to allow foreign crew on Indian ships
15 Aug, 2007, 0301 hrs IST,Nirbhay Kumar & Rajat Guha, TNN
NEW DELHI: The shipping ministry is considering a proposal to allow foreign crew on Indian ships.