5,092 initial inspections conducted, 18350 deficiencies reported
Black Sea MOU has issued its PSC Annual report for the period between 1st January and 31st December 2014.
During this period:
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10-Year Review of Inspections, Detentions and Deficiency Rate
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Inspection data by Ship Type
When considering the breakdown of ships inspected by ship type, largest group of the ship inspected during 2014 were general cargo/multi purpose ships with 2,129 (41.8%) inspections; bulk carrier 1,532 (31.0%) and oil tanker 558 (11.0%) were also inspected which represent 82.9 per cent of inspections amounted 4,219 inspections.
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Majority of detained ships were type of general cargo/multi purpose ships with 94 (62.25%) detentions and bulk carriers with 28 (18.54%) detentions and followed by RO-Ro cargo ships with 10 (6.62%) detentions which were accounted for 87.42% of the total detentions Higher per cent of detentions were with Ro-Ro passenger ship (9.71%) Ro-Ro passenger ships (9.68%), other special activities (6.00%) and general cargo/multi-purpose ships (4.42%) (number of inspections more than 10). Figure 3 shows how the ship types inspected performed with regards to detention.
Inspection Data by Deficiency
A total of 18,350 deficiencies were recorded during the port State control inspections in 2014. Majority of the deficiencies found upon inspection in 2014 were related to safety of navigation (18.08%), life saving appliances (13.67%), fire safety measures (8.54%) and living and working conditions-working conditions (8.50%) and these four categories make up 48.79% of the total deficiencies found.
Number of ISM related deficiencies were 523 which accounted for 2.85 per cent of the deficiencies, 285 marine pollution MARPOL Annex I related deficiencies observed accounting 1.55 per cent of the total deficiencies.
A total 506 detainable deficiencies and 30 RO related detainable deficiencies were recorded during the port State control inspections. 2.76 per cent of deficiencies in 2014 were detainable deficiencies, 5.93 per cent of detainable deficiencies in 2014 were RO related.
Majority of the detainable deficiencies found upon inspections in 2014 were related to lifesaving appliances (15.42%), safety of navigation (14.23%), fire safety measures (10.28%), followed by emergency systems (9.09%) and ISM (8.70%). These five categories make up 57.71% of the total detainable deficiencies found.
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Majority of the RO related detainable deficiencies found upon inspection in 2014 were related to Water/Weathertight conditions (20.00%), lifesaving appliances (16,67%), structural conditions (13.33%), safety of navigation (13.33) and ISM (13.33). These five categories make up 76.67% of the total detainable deficiencies found. Average number of detainable deficiencies and RO related detainable deficiencies were 3.35 and 0.20 per detention.
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