Tag: PSC Focus

Paris MoU has published guidelines to provide guidance for PSC inspections of ships carrying Industrial Personnel.

The Paris MoU has published its 2023 Annual Report, providing an overview of the activities and statistics of the Paris MoU in 2023. 

BIO-UV Group anticipates an increase in inspections as Port State Control (PSC) inspectors check machinery installations, crew competencies and Ballast Water Management (BWM) Plans.

ABS published its Quarterly Report on Port State Control (PSC), providing information to owners on deficiencies identified on ABS vessels during inspections carried out by the various PSC regimes globally during the First Quarter of 2024.

The Paris Memorandum of Understanding (Paris MoU) on Port State Control (PSC) carried out a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Fire Safety in collaboration with the Tokyo MOU from 1 September to 30 November 2023.

During 2023, ‘Fire Safety Code 07105 - Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions’ was the number one Deficiency Code (DC) that marked worldwide to all ship segments, involving 2.54%, of the total deficiencies of world ocean going fleet (148,078).

NorthStandard P&I Club informs that Senegal, and the port of Dakar in particular, continues to be a hotspot for significant fines, with the latest update concerning fines related to misdeclaration of CO2 extinguishers. 

Lloyd's Register (LR) has issued a Statutory Alert to inform all shipowners and operators that within the last year, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) has issued several port state control (PSC) detentions due to inoperative water mist systems on vessels trading to the US.

According to Paris MoU, lately, there has been increased attention for fishing vessel safety, prevention of pollution and working and living conditions onboard fishing vessels. Consequently, the implementation of port State control on fishing vessels has been a matter of attention as well.

The Paris MoU is trialing an alternative approach to the regular Concentrated Inspection Campaigns (CICs) by conducting several short targeted inspection campaigns referred to as Focused Inspection Campaigns (FICs)