The St Kitts & Nevis International Ship Registry (SKANReg) has set a target of five years to propel itself into the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control white list. The Registry firmly believes that its long-term strategy of reducing detentions could see it finally move out of the black list into the grey list by 2023. 

More inspectors, increased inspections as well as focused targeting of younger tonnage are among the initiatives it is looking at.

The flag missed out on grey list status by a matter of only two detentions in the recently published Paris MOU stats, but the figures it returned are a continuation of the flag’s improvement seen over recent years.