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It's not unique to this country. Shipping vessels are strange.
You can read a book called "Ninety Percent of Everything" which explains some of the huge legal issues surrounding some cases of boats stuck in purgatory.
TL;DR often the boat is registered to a shell company in one country and 'owned' by people from several different countries, then the boat itself will be in one country, the crew will be from other countries and if the boat is in international waters then it could be under yet another country.
>The ocean itself is indifferent, implacable, deadly. Ms. George notes that 2,000 seafarers die at sea each year, and more than two ships are lost each week. These events do not make the evening news. As a man who lost his brother at sea says to her, “If it had been airplane safety, something would have been done about it.”
>The ocean is a wild, mostly lawless place. As one mariner comments, “There are no skid marks on the ocean.” When an accident does occur, it can be difficult to seek even meager justice. “There is no police force or union official to assist,” the author says. “Who do you complain to, when you are employed by a Manila manning agency on a ship owned by an American, flagged by Panama, managed by a Cypriot, in international waters?”"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/books/ninety-percent-of-everything-by-rose-george.html?mcubz=1
https://www.amazon.com/Ninety-Percent-Everything-Shipping-Invisible-ebook/dp/B009LRWJKW
I've written a bit about cargo ships, and I found this to be very helpful: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009LRWJKW?ie=UTF8&redirectFromSS=1&pc_redir=T1&noEncodingTag=1&robot_redir=1