{"id":237039,"date":"2016-09-22T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=237039"},"modified":"2016-09-22T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T20:00:29","slug":"enforcing-safety-standards-domestic-ships-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/enforcing-safety-standards-domestic-ships-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Enforcing safety standards on domestic ships in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SUVA, Fiji<\/strong>\u2014The Pacific Community\u2019s (SPC) Economic Development Division and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) are organizing a regional training for Flag State Inspectors to support and strengthen their important role in enforcing recognized safety standards and other requirements on vessels registered in their countries.<\/p>\n<p>This training, which will be held in Suva, Fiji starting this week, will be attended by 13 nominated Flag State Inspectors in the Pacific region. <\/p>\n<p>Jurisdiction over a ship in connection to its nationality requires certain obligations and responsibilities that are to be fulfilled by the State which entitles the ship to carry its flag. <\/p>\n<p>Among others, the most prominent obligation for the State is to ensure safety standards are applied on-board the ship at all times so that passengers and crew can travel and work safely. <\/p>\n<p>The principle of Flag State jurisdiction or implementation which underpins maritime law is based on the assumption that a ship is a floating part of the Flag State\u2019s territory; this means the jurisdiction over a ship is connected to its nationality.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) refers to ships of a State as \u201cvessels of its registry\u201d, \u201cvessel flying its flag\u201d or \u201cvessel having its nationality\u201d. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUVA, Fiji\u2014The Pacific Community\u2019s (SPC) Economic Development Division and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[164,13512,3151,122],"class_list":["post-237039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fiji","tag-flag-state-inspectors","tag-suva","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}