Yet a third of the world's shipping tonnage carries the Liberian flag, some 1,900 vessels; most of those ships, as well as numerous ships flying the flags of nations other than Liberia ...

It's common for a flag registry to be managed in a different country. Take Liberia, for example, which is administered by an American company with its headquarters in Washington DC. The land ...

The top ten countries with the largest fleets of ships under their flags remained unchanged. Greece, home to more than 600 ...