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Catalogue description Transport Ministries: International Shipping Policy (ISPB Series) Files
| Reference: | MT 212 |
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| Title: | Transport Ministries: International Shipping Policy (ISPB Series) Files |
| Description: |
The International Shipping Policy Branch dealt with European shipping policy, relations with international bodies (UN, OECD) over shipping matters, relations with the International Maritime Organisation, the North Atlantic Ice Patrol, legal liabilities, salvage and shipping related marine pollution. The first transfer to this series relates to the loss of the MV Derbyshire. |
| Date: | 1980-2003 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | ISPB |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department for Transport, 2002- Department of Transport, 1976-1997 Department of Transport, 1995-2002 |
| Physical description: | 40 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2010 Department for Transport |
| Custodial history: | Department of Transport: 1983 to 1997; Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions: 1997 to 2001; Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions: 2001 to 2002; Department of Transport: from 2002. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
International shipping policy work came into the department with the transfer of the Shipping Divisions from the Board of Trade in 1983 and the ISPB file series was set up shortly after. The parent division of the Branch has undergone several changes in title, but the responsibilities have remained consistent .1983 to 1984: Shipping Policy Division 3; 1984 to 1989: Foreign Shipping Relations Division; 1990 to 1995: Shipping Policy and Foreign Relations Division; 1995: International Shipping Policy Division; 1996: Shipping Policy Division 2. |
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