Sentence examples for foreign shipowners from inspiring English sources

The McCulloch Court held that Congress had not meant to reach disputes between foreign shipowners and their foreign crews.

In general, the limitation law of any country will be applied by its own courts in favour of foreign shipowners as well as of citizens.

"We are in constant communication with the shipowners, with foreign authorities and with the families of the sailors who remain in captivity".

In 2002 in the United States, Democratic senator John Breaux of Louisiana proposed a bill to prevent U.S. shipowners from using foreign flags, ostensibly as a counter-terrorism measure.

foreign minister swiftly announced it would punish the shipowners and Dubai companies caught transporting illegal oil.

The modern practice of flagging ships in foreign countries began in the 1920s in the United States, when shipowners frustrated by increased regulations and rising labor costs began to register their ships to Panama.

In the 1960s and '70s Greek shipowners took advantage of an investment regime that benefited from foreign capital by investing in such sectors as oil refining and shipbuilding.

While there, the exaction was sustained as an appropriate element in a plan within the power of Congress "to regulate commerce with foreign nations," no question was made of the standing of the shipowner to raise the question [p61] of the validity of the scheme, and consequently of the exaction which was an incident of it.

Furthermore, the number of merchant ships registered in Greece (mostly at Piraeus, the country's largest port) has increased as Greek shipowners, since the late 1960s, have answered the government's call to bring their foreign-registered ships home (though many Greek ships remain under other flags).

And shipowners are up in arms.

"Shipowners give a lot to this country.