Ship inspections are undertaken by various bodies, including flag states, insurers, charterers, owners, protection and indemnity clubs, and potential purchasers.
Clearly these subsections need to be expanded to refer, in appropriate terms, to demise charterers.
I should also like to know whether this opportunity to the charterers extends to freight as well as to passenger services.
Do they wish this country to become charterers of foreign ships?
It is when these recommendations have not been implemented, due to neglect, or through cost-cutting by speculative charterers, that the problems arise.
In other words, the owner must cover a charterer in certain circumstances.
He asked whether such charterers would be covered by the restrictions.
That is something which the charterer will not endure.
