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US Virgin Islands Registry

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-considering-new-ship-registry-us-virgin-islands-sources-say-2025-05-08/ Northeast Maritime and COPE are proposing a USVI Flag registry, bypassing all those pesky US Mariner, Safety, US Built etc requirements that make US Flag so expensive to operate. This a direct risk to US Mariners, and US Shipbuilding and undermines all the great efforts of the past few years to revive our Industry. Northeast Maritime should be ashamed of themselves for endorsing it, and …