9. The destination is the Netherlands (Rotterdam).

While we're at it, the 1956 Suez canal crisis marked the end of the traditional colonial powers when the USSR threatened to nuke London and Paris if they don't let Egypt regain control of the canal.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yes-1956-suez-crisi...

Small correction. Egypt do not regain the canal, they seized the canal.

Not egypt, but the Suez Canal company was was not the legitimate owner of the canal.

Interestingly, it was the disapproval of the US under Eisenhower that stopped the military action of Britain and France that ended their intervention. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal_Company

well, they gained control by seizing the canal then lost it due to the invasion, hence why I said 'regain'. Both the Soviet and US pressure resulted in the stop of the invasion, but certainly the USSR had an important role, if anything to distract the media from its invasion of Hungary.

Britain didn't really distinguish itself overthrowing the democratic government in Iran to protect BPs profits in 1953. I guess Eisenhower thought enough of this stuff.

10. The technical manager is German (BS Shipmanagement)

Go, go gadget globalisation!

Seriously though that's pretty amazing.

Fun fact: corporations used to exist for a limit period of time, to solve a particular problem, and were then dissolved. With the introduction of indefinite corporations, we end up with cool setups like those /u/throwawaybutwhy has highlighted.

When and where did they exist for a limited period of time? It never even occurred to me that this was an option

The first European joint-stock corporations were for single voyages. Everyone would band together and fund a ship to go somewhere, then split the earnings and dissolve the corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint-stock_company#Early_join...

It's pretty much still like that now, except the last step is "go work for Google for a few years in golden handcuffs".

Apparently, in the Philippines until it was revised in 2019 companies are required to have a limited lifespan with a maximum lifespan of 50 years. (https://www.pwc.com/ph/en/taxwise-or-otherwise/2020/on-the-l...)

Railways.

> The flag is Panamanian

That's an interesting way to say tax evasion.

That’s not tax evasion. Tax evasion is explicitly illegal and if you do it you get arrested/fined an outsized amount.

The term you’re looking for is “tax avoidance”.

Try telling Panama they don't have a right to create their own tax laws. If they want to incentivize ships to register in their country, they're a sovereign nation and can do that.

At least in the northeast, it's common in the US OTR trucking industry to register the trailers in Maine. Registration fees in Maine are significantly less than in neighboring states. You'll also see a lot of recreational trailers (boats, RVs) registered in Maine.

That's an interesting way to say we should obliged to all the shitfuckery the goverments do and not look for better countries for what we want to do. Competition between goverments to end their shitfuckery would be so horrible.

And avoiding minimum wage and maintenance requirements too.

Pretty much summed up the current world order...

9. Everybody is fucked