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🇺🇸 United States
ISO USA / US
Regulatory
- MLC 2006
- not-ratified
- Paris MoU rating
- white
- Tokyo MoU rating
- white
- USCG Qualship 21
- listed
- ITF FoC
- not listed
Registry
- Vessel count
- 3,600
- Deadweight
- 12
- Administration
- United States Coast Guard (USCG) - National Vessel Documentation Center
- File a complaint
- Official form
Cabotage (Jones Act) fleet; US has not ratified MLC 2006
What this means for seafarers
- MLC 2006: This flag has not ratified MLC 2006. Port-state-control inspections still apply at MLC ports under "no more favourable treatment", but the flag itself issues no MLC certificate.
- Port-state-control profile: high-performing flag — fewer detentions on average. Read about PSC regimes →
- STCW: Party to STCW. Verify a CoC issued under this flag at the flag's verification portal.
See also: flag risk explained · MLC ratification list · white/grey/black lists.
Verification & complaint routes
- STCW CoC verification: https://homeport.uscg.mil
Ships flying United States
- Prelude FLNG · IMO 9708064 · Floating LNG
- USS Constitution · IMO 8121329 · Historic / heritage
- SS United States · IMO 9232150 · Historic / ocean liner
- Q7671804 · IMO 8835217 · training vessel
- USCGC Joshua Appleby · IMO 9177246 · watercraft
Companies headquartered in United States
- Matson Navigation Company · operator
- Chevron Shipping Company LLC · operator
- Carnival Corporation & plc · operator
- Royal Caribbean Group · operator
- Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings · operator
- V.Ships Americas Inc. · both
- United Parcel Service · operator
- FedEx · operator
- C. H. Robinson Worldwide · operator
- Expeditors International · operator
Ports in United States
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