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The prospect of a new round of cabotage laws being brought into force has been rising in recent weeks as the Association of African Shipowners (ASOS) has been pressing for the African Union (AU) to introduce a regulation that would bar non-African-owned vessels from carrying cargo between African countries.
The AU’s African Maritime Transport Charter, introduced in 2010 and amended last year, has a clause that states AU members would look to establish a new cabotage regime: “the establishment of national ...
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