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Shipping: Ports and Territorial Waters

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) unregistered and (b) uninsured vessels do not (i) enter UK territorial waters and (ii) dock at UK ports.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 11 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2024
Answer: 19 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) unregistered and (b) uninsured vessels do not (i) enter UK territorial waters and (ii) dock at UK ports.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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19 Dec 2024
Answer published
As a signatory of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNLCOS), the UK (or any state that has subscribed to the agreement) cannot disrupt the transit passage of vessels through its territorial waters for lacking insurance, or being unregis...

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