• Commandos seize suspected drug smuggling ship off NSW
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[quote]Heavily-armed commandos have responded to a suspected drug-smuggling ship sailing off the New South Wales coast. The elite soldiers were on board the Navy's guided missile frigate HMAS Newcastle, which had been tasked by Border Protection to help with the operation. Defence sources have told the ABC the target vessel is believed to be an Australian chartered Chinese ship which is using Vietnamese crew. The incident is reminiscent of the 2003 military takeover of the North Korean cargo ship Pong Su, which was intercepted and its crew arrested for attempting to smuggling heroin into Australia. Defence Minister Marise Payne said investigations were ongoing. "My understanding is it's a police operation with ADF support and as they are operational matters I won't expand on that," she said.[/quote] [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-11/commandos-sent-to-intercept-suspected-drug-smuggling-ship/8018214[/url]
Austrialian charted chinese ship with Vietnamese crew... are they trying to use a loophole here?
[QUOTE=freaka;51353664]Austrialian charted chinese ship with Vietnamese crew... are they trying to use a loophole here?[/QUOTE] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience]Flag of convenience[/url] [quote=Wikipedia]Flag of convenience (FOC) is a business practice whereby a merchant ship is registered in a country other than that of the ship's owners, and the ship flies that country's civil ensign. Owners of a ship may register the ship under a flag of convenience to reduce operating costs or avoid the regulations of the owner's country. The closely related term open registry, which describes a ship register that will register foreign-owned ships, also exists. The term "flag of convenience" has been in use since the 1950s, and it refers to the civil ensign a ship flies in order to indicate its country of registration or flag state. A ship operates under the laws of its flag state, and these laws are used if the ship is involved in a case under admiralty law.[/quote]
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