national shipping policy
• an element of overall economics policy, expresses the
attitude of the state to shipping
• shipping policy can be understood as the totality of
economic, legal and administrative measures by means of
which state influences the position of its national fleet, that
is, its place and role in the national economy and in
international freight markets
• the attitude of the state to its own merchant marine as a
rule reflects indirectly its attitude to the fleets of other
countries
• 2 aspects of shipping policy;
• foreign, expressing the attitude to other fleets
• domestic, to own merchant marine