Flag of convenience refers to a business practice whereby a ship's owners register a merchant ship in a ship register of a country other than that of the ship's owners, and the ship flies the civil en
The sinking of Amoco Cadiz led to concerted ship inspections by port states.
The engineers of the Seamen's Act, from left to right, maritime labor leader Andrew Furuseth, Senator Robert La Follette, and muckraker Lincoln Steffens, circa 1915
The drilling platform Deepwater Horizon flew a Marshallese flag of convenience.