
Bareboat Charter
The Shipping Act 1994 permits bare-boat chartering in and out of the Barbados flag. Ships already registered with Barbados flag may opt to bare-boat charter under another flag, whilst maintaining suspended registration status with Barbados. Mortgages may continue to be recorded but the ship would be operating under the laws of the ‘secondary’ flag.
For a ship wishing to bare-boat charter in to Barbados, consent from the foreign flag would be required, or evidence that such consent was not required.