From 1st September 2017 to 30th November 2017, the Black Sea MoU, in conjunction with the Tokyo MoU and Paris MoU and other MoUs, carried out a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Safety of Navigation throughout the region. From a total of 983 inspections, 59 ships were detained with 21 (35.6%) detentions being within the CIC scope.
This means that in 21 cases the navigation systems are not meeting SOLAS requirements and had deficiencies, which were serious enough to detain the ship, resulting in a CIC-topic related detention rate of 2.14%.
Highlights
- A total of 180 questionnaires had at least a non-compliance to a requirement, resulting 18.3% of CIC inspections.
- The overall average per cent of non-conformities was 2.68.
- The most notable non-conformities observed was:
–>lack of exhibition of navigation/signal lights in accordance with the requirements of COLREG72 (7.6%), followed by
–>lack of passage plan covering the whole voyage (6.2%) and
–>whether ship’s VDR/SVDR record data fully (2.9%). - A total of 358 (36.42%) CIC inspections concerned general cargo/multi-purpose ships, followed by
–> bulk carriers with 333 (33.88%) inspections,
–>oil tankers with 130 (13.22%) inspections and
–>chemical tankers with 72 (7.32%) inspections,
which comprises 821 (83.51%) total CIC inspections. - A total of 13 (61.9%) ships detained for CIC-related deficiencies were general cargo/multipurpose ships, followed by
–>bulk carriers with 4 (19.05%) detentions, and
–>Ro-Ro Cargo ships with 2 (9.52%) detentions,
which comprises 19 (90.48%) of CIC topic related detentions. - Most inspections were carried out on board ships flying the flags of Panama with 147 (14.95%) inspections, Malta with 109 (11.08%) inspections, Liberia with 74 (7.53%) inspections and Turkey with 70 (7.12%) inspections.
- A total of 12 flags had CIC-topic related detentions. These flags cover 55.65% of the CIC inspections.
- A total of 43 flags, covering 44.35% of the CIC inspections, had no CIC-related detentions at all.
- A total of 24 flags, covering 9.76% of the total CIC inspections, had no non-conformities.
- It is observed that ships younger than 15 years age performing relatively well with 566 (58.58%) inspections with only 2 CIC topic related detentions. Older ships, particularly those 30 years and older, show reason for concern with majority of detentions 11 (52.4%) and 98 (40.0%) non-conformities, although subjecting one fourth of inspections 241 (24.5%).
High CIC topic related detention rate, CIC inspections with non-conformities, unfavourable results…raise concern industry level of compliance to the SOLAS Chapter V in particular overall status of the vessel’s navigation safety.
Recommendations
- Basic findings of the report in general, analysis of the responses to the questionnaire and breakdown of major non-conformities by ship flag, ship type and age, to be submitted IMO III Sub-committee 5th session.
- PSC Officers should be instructed to submit CIC Questionnaire for each initial PSC inspection during the campaign, and;
- Continue to put emphasis on the vital requirements of the SOLAS when performing PSC inspections, particularly the requirements that raised the most concern in the CIC.
-lack of proper exhibition of navigation/signal lights in accordance with the requirements of COLREG72: Q11: 75 (30.6%)
-lack of the passage plan cover the whole voyage: Q8: 61 (24.9%);
-ship’s VDR/SVDR not record data fully: Q5: 23 (9.4%).
The campaign was conducted under the campaign coordination of the Bulgarian Maritime Administration.
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