Growing fake ship register network is accelerating flag-hopping
- Sanctioned ships shifting identities facilitated by connected network of fraudulent ship registries
- Pace of flag-hopping is dramatically speeding up and fake registries are allowing multiple identities
- Fraudulent registries creating new fake identities out of scrapped vessels
The connected network of fraudulent ship registries is growing rapidly, allowing sanctioned ships to move quickly between fake identities using certificates created to order
