The guide, authored by Steve Decesare and Krista Ellul, covers matters relating to aviation finance and leasing under Maltese law, ranging from registration to enforcement and repossession.

The Merchant Shipping Directorate has announced that in an effort to support shipping companies, owners, managers and operators of Maltese merchant ships.

The yachting industry in Malta is an ever-growing sector. At present, there are over 1,000 yachts above 24 metres in length registered under the Malta flag.

Due to the ever intensifying Covid19 pandemic, the Ports and Yachting Directorate has issued additional precautionary measures applicable...

An important aspect of the Malta Flag registration, particularly for yachts, is the option for individual citizens to register their vessels in their own personal name if they hold a valid EU, EEA or Swiss passport.

Despite the closure of VRT stations, testing on certain vehicles covered by/awaiting a Community licence for the carriage of goods is permitted.

In December 2021, the European Maritime Safety Agency carried out a detailed assessment of the training and certification system in place in the Philippines for seafarers...

Galistair Trading Ltd has received its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) and Air operator License (AOL), which was granted by the Transport Malta Civil Aviation Directorate.

GARI is a comparative analytical data and scores tool by Watson Farley & Williams targeted at the aviation industry, providing industry statistics from 100 jurisdictions worldwide...

During a press conference held on the 14th of October, Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg announced that Transport Malta...

The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (the "Paris MoU") constitutes an agreement between 27 maritime authorities (including Malta) pursuant to which all member states...

In order to address the current complex maritime security situation off the West Coast of Africa the Maltese Flag Administration has issued MSD Notice 159.

Recently, a proposal was made by the Malta Maritime Forum (MMF), following Justice Joseph Zammit McKeon's suggestion, for the Law Courts' commercial section to be expanded in order to cater for maritime court cases specifically.

Procedures for an arrest of vessel in Malta have been recently upgraded to enable, for the first time in Maltese legislative history, privately-engaged bailiffs to formally serve a warrant of...

The introduction of two European Regulations (Regulations 2019/947 and 2019/945) on unmanned aircraft systems, which came into force on the 31st of December 2020...

On the 20th of February 2024, the following annual Certificates ( as applicable ) will expire for most of the merchant vessels...

All you need to know about the benefits of a Maltese Flag: tonnage tax regime, no other income tax, shipping companies, VAT benefits and how companies and shipowners in other countries can use the benefits in a cooperation.

Effectively the carriage ban is an additional mechanism aimed at giving teeth to the new global sulphur limit.

In addition to the previous measures implemented by the Merchant Shipping Directorate (Directorate), which were introduced to combat the negative effects that the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has already had on the shipping industry.

Transport Malta's Merchant Shipping Directorate has issued a revised version of the Commercial Yacht Code, known as the CYC 2025. This new code replaces the previous 2020 edition...