FLAG SUPPORT · RO OVERSIGHT · PSC FOLLOW-UP
Flag Administration Services
Support for owners and for administrations, delivered by a former Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs for the Republic of the Marshall Islands who ran flag operations for North Asia and carried responsibility for that administration's IMO oversight programme covering a recognized organization.
SolarisTech works with flag administrations and with owners on flag matters internationally. The services below are non-statutory throughout: they inform a flag's decisions, they do not carry them.
What's Included
- Non-statutory inspections and audits conducted using flag-State method and criteria, for owners who want the real standard applied before the statutory audit applies it
- Support with deficiency, detention and casualty follow-up, working alongside the owner, the flag and the recognized organization
- RO performance monitoring: whether your class society is delivering what your flag expects, evidenced rather than assumed
- Guidance on flag selection, flag transfer and dual-registration questions
- Liaison support between owner, flag and class when the technical positions diverge
How We Engage
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Understand the fleet, the flags and the issue in front of you.
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Inspect, audit or advise using flag-State method and criteria, which carry no statutory effect in our hands.
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Deliver findings, and present the technical position where you need a senior voice in the room.
Outcomes
Non-statutory throughout. Our inspections and audits use flag-State method and criteria, but they are not statutory inspections or audits and they carry no statutory effect. They inform the decisions of your flag administration and its recognized organizations. They do not make those decisions, and they never replace your flag's own statutory functions. Certification, detention release and safe manning remain determinations for the flag State and the port State concerned. Our reports are prepared for the party that instructs us and for the purpose stated in the engagement.
Reliance by any other party requires our written agreement.
YOUR REVIEWER
Thomas Blenk
American Bureau of Shipping, latterly Corporate Vice President, Global Marine Sectors. Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Talk to someone who has run flag operations.
Owner or administration, start with the issue in front of you.