Concordia may change master's role

摘要

The Costa Concordia disaster could spur more shoreside oversight and less operational control for masters, predicted Clay Maitland, managing partner at International Registries, the company that administers the Marshall Islands Registry. "It's pretty obvious that the ship was where it shouldn't have been," he elaborated to delegates at the Hellenic-American/Norwegian American Chambers conference in New York on 7 February "I suspect what's coming is a greater degree of command and control of operations of ships from shore.