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The International Tanker Recovery Scheme - At the meeting of the “International Tanker Owners Association” on August 21st, a tanker tonnage stabilization scheme has been drafted. This International Tanker Recovery Scheme wants to restrict the available tonnage, to bring about a temporary rise in freights, by either laying up or scrapping the less economic ships. The Recovery Scheme is open to tankers or vessels which are primarily adapted for the carriage in bulk of oil, petroleum or other liquids, of not less than 15.000 deadweight tonnage on ordinary summer loadline, built in or after 1947. Each member has to pay an entrance fee and an annual subscription per vessel, both not to exceed Pond 5, and a contribution of not more than one shilling and three pence per d.w.t. per month, payable monthly in advance. This contribution is to be graded according to the size of the vessel. The maximum contribution for any vessel will not exceed the basic rate of 1/3 on 40.000 d.w.t. The contributions of the members are to be accumulated in a “General Fund” and a “Special Fund”. The “General Fund” is to provide for the administration cost of the Recovery Scheme, and is to be applied in the payment of laid-up allowances and eventually to supplement the scrapping fund. The laid-up allowances are to be paid by the “Scheme Committee” at a maximum basic rate of 5 s. per d.w.t. per month, graded according to the size of the ship, and scaled down according to the age of the vessel. The “Special Fund” is to provide for the scrapping allowances. Fundamentally a scrapping allowance is to be the equivalent of the amount of the laid-up allowance which would have been paid for the vessel, if laid up from the date of the grant of the scrapping allowance until 12 months after the date upon which the next Special Survey would have been due. The International Tanker Recovery Scheme is administered by the “Scheme Committee”. The Recovery Scheme will be automatically closed at the end of a three years’ period, unless a majority of not less than 75 % of the members of the Scheme agree that it should be continued for a further period of not more than three years.
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How to Cite: De Bremaeker, J. (1963) “Naar een aanbodsbeperking op de tankschipmarkt door het "International Tanker Recovery Scheme"”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen. 8(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95686