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Weird to not mention the country of the ship, since that seems relevant in a war scenario. Malta - https://maritimeoptima.com/public/vessels/pages/imo:9648879/m

• Luc 2y ago
  Flag of convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience
• pjc50 2y ago
  The registration is irrelevant; the actual owner and operator only matter. The ship has as much to with Malta as .io domains with British Indian Overseas Territory.
  • soared 2y ago
    Ah well, should’ve mentioned the owner and operator then to avoid laymen like me doing half baked googling!
    • ethbr1 2y ago
      Unfortunately and by industry standard, a ship's owner and operator are often obsfuscated under multiple layers. It's about as easy to figure out who actually owns and is operating a ship as tracing an international bank account ~1980. It'll be curious if one outcome of the Russian shadow fleets is a stronger worldwide push for verifiable true commercial maritime registration. Essentially: mandating transparency in shells and KYC reporting, in the same way post-9/11 financial reporting was implemented.
      • tialaramex 2y ago
        Improved transparency is already the direction of travel, but pushing back on that is part of "Project 2025" and Trump has signalled that's an important objective.
• purrcat259 2y ago
  Its a bit of a national meme that every ship that somehow gets into trouble is registered here