# Gmdss **URL:** \ **Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\ **Created:** [July 16, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/gmdss/72959 "2025-07-16T14:28:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![tugsailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@tugsailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/tugsailor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/gmdss/72959/9 "2025-07-17T06:55:13Z")
> [@US Virgin Islands Registry](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/us-virgin-islands-registry/72589): > > [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-considering-new-ship-registry-us-virgin-islands-sources-say-2025-05-08/](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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/gmdss/72959)._