Tag: Indian Ocean MoU

The Indian Ocean MoU authorities have agreed to adopt pragmatic guidance, understanding necessity to deal with crucial circumstances amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The guidance focuses on challenges related to MLC Convention (2006) and to relevant IMO Conventions. 

The Indian Ocean MoU shared its preliminary results on the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Emergency System and Procedures that took place in the region from 1 September 2019 and 30 November 2019. During that period, IOMOU authorities detained a total of nine ships for issues related to the CIC.

As the implementation of the ban on the non-compliant fuel oil carriage is taking effect in March, the Indian Ocean MoU has been issuing a “letter of information” to vessels since September 2019, to make awareness in advance about the issue. 

Indian Ocean MoU issued its annual PSC report for 2018, informing that a total of 252 ships were detained in the region, bringing the overall detention percentage for the year at 4.42 %. This number represents a decrease compared to the 4.95 % recorded in 2017.

The latest Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) was jointly conducted from 1st September to 30th November 2018 by the Paris, Tokyo, India and Black Sea MoU, focusing on compliance with the MARPOL Annex VI. Namely, during these three months, the PSC Authorities checked eleven items as mentioned in the CIC questionnaire.

SQE MARINE recommends best practices to check compliance with the applicable requirements of the MARPOL Annex VI for the forthcoming CIC which will be held for a period of three months by Paris, Tokyo, Black Sea and Indian MoUs.

The Concentrated Inspection Campaign on Safety of Navigation including ECDIS was carried out in the Indian Ocean MOU region between 1st September 2017 and 30th November 2017, to verify that there is compliance with the applicable requirement of SOLAS Conventions, the overall status of the vessel’s navigation safety, and the competency of crew.

At the 20th meeting of the PSC Committee in Maldives, in August, the Committee finalised the criteria for implementation of New Inspection Regime for the Indian Ocean MoU, for providing a more risk based system for identifying and targeting non-complaint ships for inspections from 1st January 2018.

Indian Port State Control presented the preliminary results of the concentrated inspection campaign on cargo securing arrangements, during which three ships were detained in the Indian Ocean MOU region. The campaign was carried out between 1st September 2016 and 30th November 2016 and was conducted in conjunction with the CIC by the Tokyo MoU.

The Indian MOU has issued its Annual Report on the Port State Control in the Indian Ocean region (IOMOU) for 2016. A total of 6,010 inspections were carried out in 2016. Out of these inspections, 3,393 inspections were found to have 14,830 deficiencies in total.