Flagged in the marshall islands. That’s a pretty good deal for the company owning the ships; they get the protection of the US navy without actually paying taxes to help support the navy. When I was in the navy all the tankers were flagged to either panama or liberia. When the iranians started attacking tankers in the gulf during their war with iraq I thought the panamanian or liberian navies should have sailed to their defense.
I was thinking the same. Why aren’t the Panamanian and Marshall Islands providing protection?