Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 19266

Shipping: Ports and Territorial Waters

Tabled: 11 December 2024

Answered: 19 December 2024

Question

Dr Andrew Murrison

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.

Answer

Mike Kane

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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