Beirut 爆破 耐えるs 証言，証人／目撃する to lawlessness of world's oceans
The 破滅的な Beirut 爆破 has laid 明らかにする shortcomings in the system of international 海上の 規則
An old, unseaworthy 貨物船 from Georgia -- or was it Bulgaria or Moldova? -- packed with 危険な 構成要素 爆発するs after 明らかに 存在 abandoned for years by its owner in Beirut's port.
Almost 200 were killed and thousands 負傷させるd in the August 4 爆破, which serves as a 思い出の品 of how lawless the world's oceans can be, where traffickers of just about anything can ply their 貿易（する） with seeming impunity.
The Rhosus 貨物 ship had ドッキングする／減らす／ドックに入れるd there on November 20, 2013, and has been left 立ち往生させるd ever since after the ロシアの 実業家 believed to be its owner abandoned it.
For Helen Sampson, director of the Seafarers International 研究 Centre at the University of Cardiff, the 悲劇 throws the スポットライト on the shortcomings of the 現在の system for 監督するing 貿易（する） on the world's oceans.
"Had the Rhosus been 適切に 規制するd, she would not have been able to sail to Beirut in unseaworthy 条件 and would not have been 拘留するd," she told AFP.
"We can 推測する that she would not have been aba ndoned and her 貨物 would not have been 発射する／解雇するd.
"In any 事例／患者, the example serves as a stark 思い出の品 of the （法などの）抜け穴s which are 現在の in the 現在の system of 海上の 規則."
- Moldovan 旗 -
The Rhosus was a dilapidated 30-year-old 大型船 from Georgia that sailed under a Moldovan 旗 and had a mailing 演説（する）／住所 in Bulgaria.
Landlocked Moldova is one of 17 countries blacklisted by the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port 支配（する）／統制する (Paris MoU), an organisation of 27 明言する／公表するs, mostly European, which 分類するs the 旗s によれば safety, 環境の and social 基準.
Others 含む Togo, Mongolia and ウクライナ共和国.
Nearly 200 people died, thousands more 負傷させるd and large 列s of Beirut 破壊するd to the ground when a gigantic 備蓄（する） of ammonium nitrate 爆発するd in the city's port on August 4
Sampson 見積（る）s that 現在／一般に more than 70 パーセント of tonnage on the world's oceans is 存在 carried by "解放する／自由な 登録（する）d" ships sailing under "旗s of convenience" -- or 旗s that are not of their count ry of origin.
While not all of these 旗s are やむを得ず irresponsible, some shipowners find the 比較して low regulatory 障害物s attractive.
The International 輸送（する） 労働者s' 連合 (ITF) has identified 35 旗s as risky, 含むing the biggest and best-known 旗 of convenience パナマ, which had 9,367 ships at the end of 2019, nearly twice as many as 中国, によれば Lloyd's 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） 海上の 知能.
- Mysterious shipowner -
But it is not only a question of the Rhosus's 旗.
によれば the 組織するd 罪，犯罪 and 汚職 報告（する）／憶測ing 事業／計画（する）, an investigative journalism outfit, its real owner was a Cypriot shipping 有力者／大事業家 who hid behind a smokescreen of different companies.
OCCRP said the 大君 賃貸し（する）d the rickety 大型船 経由で a パナマ-登録（する）d 会社／堅い to a ロシアの 実業家, who 結局 宣言するd 破産 and abandoned the 大型船, together with its 乗組員 and 危険な 貨物.
その上に, the Rhosus's 証明書 of seaworthiness had been 問題／発行するd by another company owned by the Cypriot shipping 有力者／大事業家, OCCRP said.
The 貨物 itself was 運命にあるd for a Mozambican 会社／堅い called Fabrica de Explosivos which, also によれば OCCRP, was part of a 網状組織 of companies with links to Mozambique's 判決，裁定 class and under 調査 for 武器 trafficking and the 供給（する） of 爆発性のs to テロリストs.
- 'The 逮捕する is の近くにing in' -
にもかかわらず, not everyone in the 産業 should be tarred with the same 小衝突, says ジーンズ-Marc Lacave, 長，率いる of the French shipowners' 連合, Armateurs de フラン.
Shipping accounts for 90 パーセント of the international movement of freight
"There will always be 黒人／ボイコット sheep," he said, but the regulatory differences between countries are 消えるing "and we are 証言，証人／目撃するing an 上向き 集中" of 基準s, said the former director of the French port of Le Havre.
Nelly Grassin, a 安全 専門家 at Armateurs de フラン, said "the 逮捕する is の近くにing in" with checks on the ports becoming ますます たびたび（訪れる） and efficient.
Some 観察者／傍聴者s 示唆する the Rhosus and its 爆発性の 出荷／船積み might be an exception in an 産業 that accounts for 90 パーセント of international 貿易（する） in goods.
But in her 調書をとる／予約する "The Hidden 直面する of the Economy, Neoliberalism and Criminality", Clotilde Champeyrache argues that the "massification" of 貿易（する） creates an "invisibility" that 犯罪の organisations can use to their advantage.
She said lowering of 基準s 原因（となる）d by 競争 between 明言する／公表するs that 供給（する） 旗s of convenience makes it possible "to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 police and 法律 施行 操作／手術s by blurring the traceability of goods, 資本／首都 and people".
