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HONG KONG REGISTER OF SHIPPING/
Fresent Fosition
1. A DII team visited Hong Kong for 8 weeks in the
late autumn to look further into the practical points
which would be raised were an independent Hong Kong
We have not yer
2.
Register of Shipping to be established. the team's
report is attached. The two issues which gave rise to
the greatest difficulties concerned manning and safety
equipment/On the former, the difficulty has been
that there is a shortage of British officers so that
it is not possible, even given the will, for ships
transferred to the Hong Kong Register from flags of
gonvenience to conform with current UK manning
There are
requirements, namely that the Mister, first and Second
Officers should have British nationality and hold
British certificates.
For obvious reasons the Master
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of a British ship whether registered in the United
Kingdom or Hong Kong must be British,, the DTI have
in respeed of the Hong Kong han, ster
conceded that /Hong Kong belongers may qualify for first
and Second Officers and it is proposed that they should
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be/examined locally. //The present requirement of safety
equipment is that this must be up to British standards.
Most Hong Kong owned ships are built in Japanese yards
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