Flags of Convenience:
The largest shipping registries are Panama, Liberia, Greece, Marshall Islands and the Bahamas,
Approximately 6,300 sail under the Panamanian flag, making Panama the largest. The Greek-controlled fleet is at almost 90 million gross tons.
The Marshall Islands is fourth with 1, 500 vessels and 37 million tons. Bahamas has 1,500 vessels at 27 million tons.
Other significant flags include Cyprus and Malta
Missile launch vehicles, called TELs – for transporter, erector, launcher were shipped from Shanghai to North Korea last August on board the Harmony Wish, a Cambodian-flagged cargo vessel. Japanese authorities tracked the ship by satellite and searched it after it had delivered its cargo, when it transited through Japan the following month, Although no suspicious vehicles were on board the ship when it was searched in Japan, authorities found documents detailing the cargo it had unloaded in North Korea, which included the vehicles, The UN security council imposed sanctions against North Korea after its first nuclear test in 2006, stepping them up after a second test in 2009 to try to derail the country's rogue nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes. The sanctions restrict exports of weapons or technology that could be used to boost those programmes.
8853776HARMONY WISHXUNB8General Cargo Ship1991
Name:Harmony Wish IMO:8853776 Flag:Cambodia MMSI:515251000 Callsign:XUNB8 Former name(s): - Hoei Maru (Until 2008 Jul 31) Technical Data Vessel type:Grab Dredger Gross tonnage:1,999 tons Summer DWT:3,720 tons Length:85 m Beam:13 m Draught:4.5 m
Additional Information Home port:Phnom Penh Class society:Inclamar Build year:1991 Builder*:Kamishima Shipbuilding Osakikamijima, Japan Owner:Harmony Growing Shipmanagement Dalian, China Manager:Harmony Growing Shipmanagement Dalian, China
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