Vessels exposed to 24 month bans from Australian ports
According to new guidelines AMSA has publishedMarine Notice setting out that vessels not complying with regulations such as safety standards, international labour conventions and marine environment regulations can be prohibited from using or entering Australian ports.The Swedish P&I Club notes that AMSA can consider prohibitions on other vessels managed (owned/operated) by the same company if the standard of the vessel subject to the ban is "so poor as to cast significant doubt on the standards of other vessels managed by the same company". In addition, AMSA has also left the door open to extending the timeframe of the prohibitions if the "performance of the company as a whole" is unacceptable.There are currently four vessels on the list of vessels that have been issued with prohibition directions pincluding one vessel which has been banned for a period of 12 months.With PSC performance for individual vessels the general principles that will be applied in the making of a decision to issue a direction not to enter or use an Australian port, or ports, are as follows:Refusal of access for 3 months - where a vessel has been detained then released with conditions to carry out corrective action, but returns to Australia without ...
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