Two ships sailing under the flag of Panama ran into problems off the coast of Germany recently. For over a century now, ...

Panama's Maritime Authority has removed from its registry more than 650 vessels since 2019 as part of an effort to fulfill U.S. sanctions and enforce stricter rules for the ships it flags, it said on ...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's Maritime Authority said on Wednesday it has begun a process to cancel flag registrations on four LNG vessels sanctioned by the United States over their links with ...

In 1964, anti-American riots broke out in Panama because the Panamanian flag was not allowed to fly next to the U.S. flag at Balboa High School in the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone that was attended ...

Panamanian students carry a large flag along Fourth of July Avenue in Panama City, Jan. 9, 1964, after Canal Zone police fired at them with tear-gas guns.

Panama's maritime authority said on Friday that it has canceled the registrations of 107 vessels that were flying under the Panamanian flag and were included in international sanctions lists, the ...

Cutting costs with a flag of convenience. According to Alexander Proelss, a professor of International Maritime Law at the University of Hamburg, “Panama is a typical flag-of-convenience state.” He ...

01/17/2025 January 17, 2025. Two ships sailing under the flag of Panama ran into problems off the coast of Germany recently. For over a century now, shipowners wanting to circumvent certain ...