Sergyeyeva N. Organizational and Legal Bases of Ships' Agency Service

From the point of view of the science of administration and law and the science of maritime law this paper is the first complex research of organizational and legal bases of ships' agency service. Proposals are made as for the necessity to simplify state legitimacy of the subjects of ships' agency service activity, to perfect criteria for referring agency service of the merchant marine to licensed types of activity, to introduce definite qualification requirements to persons exercising ships' agency service, to adopt a professional code of conduct for ship agents proceeding from their special status and specifics of activity, as well as the necessity to observe international standards for ship agents.