Transparent system and high percentage of local owners make for easier tracing in terror threats, earning it a top-four ranking

By K.C. Viiayan

SINGAPORE'S registry of ships has won the country top marks in a global survey, for helping to contain terror on the high seas.

With almost all the ships registered in local hands, tracing their owners would be swift in the event of any maritime terror threat, said the authors of a pioneering British study.

The study was on the transparency of 37 nations' ship registers which, together, carry 70 per cent of the world's merchant fleet in terms of gross tonnage ......
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