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ARTICLE · 25 AUGUST 2020

Malta Maritime Registry Among Top 20 Paris MoU White List

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Malta retained its status as largest flag in terms of gross tonnage in the EU and sixth worldwide.

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Francesca Ferrando
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The Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg recently announced that while the Malta flag qualified in the top 20 on the Paris MoU white list, in 17th place. This is testimony of the high technical performance of the Maltese fleet and its commitment to safeguard international conventions standards regarding safety, pollution prevention and work conditions for seamen. Good performances were also registered with respect to the Tokyo MoU and in America.

Malta retained its status as largest flag in terms of gross tonnage in the EU and sixth worldwide.

Minister Ian Borg said that, "for the first time, the Maltese flag has registered a detention rate lower than 2%. We have a registry that in the last 7 years nearly doubled its registered tonnage, from little more than 42 million tons at end 2012 to nearly 83 million tons at the end of last year. Despite difficult times for the industry, in 2019 we witnessed a growth of over 7% and saw the

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