One global company based in Florida, MTN has for the past thirty years pioneered and developed satellite-based services for virtually all of the cruise ships and cargocarriers in the world.
The EU list, cobbled together with help from all 25 member states, lists both cargo and passenger carriers from Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and Liberia as having inadequate systems for regulatory oversight on safety standards and bars them from flying to EU destinations.