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EagleSpeak: 78 Ships - U.S. Merchant Marine - the What ...
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Of all the cruise ships sailing around the world, only one is flagged in the USA.
The flag of convenience helps ship owners to evade their home nation's "inconvenient" rules/regulations, and often for reasons that are not so good.
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ITF's list of "bad guys" (flag of convenience countries) includes:

• Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba
• Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda
• Cambodia, Canary Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Cyprus
• GIS (German International Ship Register), Gibraltar
• Honduras
• Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg
• Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Myanmar
• Netherlands/Dutch Antilles
• Panama
• St Vincent, Sri Lanka
• Tuvalu (Ellice Islands, Polynesia)
• Vanuatu (South Pacific).

As a rule, cruise ships under the flag of convenience have a multinational crew and are owned by large multinational companies.