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How 'flags of convenience' have shrunk Australia's merchant fleet

  • Written by Peter van Duyn, Maritime Logistics Expert, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), Deakin University
How 'flags of convenience' have shrunk Australia's merchant fleetThousands of large commercial ships operate in Australian waters. But just 14 of them officially remain Australian ships. Shutterstock

In movies about ships, a crew feverishly changing their vessel’s name and flag to avoid detection is a common tactic. Nothing so simple could work in reality, right?

In a sense, though, running up a different...

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