Tag: PSC

Fatigue is one of the key safety risks facing seafarers On April 3rdh, 2011, bulkcarrier "Shen Neng 1" hit a coral reef off the Australian west coast. In its final report on the grounding the Australian Transport Safety Bureau put forward that the chief mate was fatigued, affecting his performance as Officer of the Watch (OOW).Fatigue is one of the key safety risks facing seafarers, and watchkeepers in particular.The ATSB urged ship operators to comply with international requirements and properly manage the hours of work and rest of watchkeepers. And the report stated that a succession of quite simple and small errors on the part of a tired crew led to the ships grounding, a problem that rests with the flagstate of a ship, as they are the party that decides what is the minimal safe manning of a ship(based on IMO resolution A.890(21).Normally, this IMO resolution sets out high standards, but flagstates do not follow this IMO-resolution, leading to very lowsafe manning crew numbers on ships. An example: Panama-flagged VLCCs may sail with a captain and two mates, and thats perfectly legal.Serious shipping companies make their own assesment of necessary crew levels onboard; but other companies just go with ...

Inspectors issued a detention deficiency Code 30 Port State Control inspectors issued a detention deficiency (Code 30) against one of our vessels for a defective tachometer on an auxiliary engine.Fortunately, a spare tachometer was on order and was to be received at the next port of call.On the basis of this evidence, the PSC inspector downgraded the deficiency to Code 45 (rectify detainable deficiency by next port). The defective tachometer was duly renewed and the deficiency rectified at the next port. Corrective actions A fleet notice has been issued requiring all vessels to ensure that tachometers for all auxiliary engines on board are in working condition and that an adequate stock of spare tachometers is kept at all times; SMS (List of critical spares) has been revised accordingly.Source: Mars/Nautical Institute

English version With reference the article "Panamanian flag versus Paris PSC MoU" related to sanctions against ship detained by the Paris MoU, thePanama Maritime Authorityhave recently issued an English version of the below-linked Resolution No. 106-24-DGMM, suspending the Occasional Inspection on board Panamanian-flagged vesselsolder than20 years for which next port of arrival is a country which is a member of the Paris MOU.Source: BIMCO

Press release The following press release has been issued further to the twenty-first meeting held in Republic of Korea.It should be noted that "the Committee approved the arrangements for the CIC on Structural Safety and Load Lines that will be carried out from 1 September to 30 November 2011 simultaneously with the Paris MOU" and that "the Committee reconfirmed its decision to conduct a joint CIC on Fire Safety System (FSS) with the Paris MOU during period September-November 2012 and noted the progress made thereon".To view the press release please click hereSource: Bureau Veritas

Summary of recent meeting The Tokyo MOU issued a press release stating that representatives of the Port State Control Committee met in Busan, South Korea on 18-21 April.Among other things, it was agreed to conduct a concentrated inspection campaign (CIC) on Structural Safety and Load Lines during the period 1 September through 30 November 2011, simultaneously with the Paris MOU.Source: Tokyo MOU

Failing Port State Control inspection The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that 4 foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during March 2011 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.Latest monthly figures show that there were no new detentions of foreign flagged ships in UK ports during March 2011 but 4 vessels remained under detention from previous months. The overall rate of detentions compared with inspections carried out over the last twelve months was 2.68% this is slightly down from Februarys twelve month rate.Out of the detained vessels none were registered with flag states listed on the Paris MOU white list, 1 was registered with a flag state on the grey list none were registered with flag states on the black list and 3 were unregistered.DETENTIONS CARRIED OVER FROM PREVIOUS MONTHSDate & Place of detention: 04/03/2010 Lowestoft Vessel Name: CIEN PORCIENTO (General Cargo) GT: 106 IMO No: 8944446 Flag: Unregistered Company: Open Window Inc Classification Society: Unclassed Recognised Organisation: Not applicable Recognised Organisation for ISM: Not applicable Summary: 30 deficiencies 7 grounds for detention The vessel was detained in Lowestoft because the main fire pump was inoperative and there was no alternative fire pump outside the ...

How to avoid detention This new edition outlines the main deficiencies PSC found and tells you which parts of the inspected ships PSC was focussing on in the past few years.For more information please click hereSource: GL Group

IRELAND - Port State Control, Directive 2009/16 EC The Ireland Department of Transport has issued a Marine Notice, related to the Port State Control New Inspection Regime, with the simultaneous introduction of changes to the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MOU), of which Ireland is a member state, and the entering into force of new EU legislation in the form of Directive 2009/16/EC on Port State Control (Recast).Please refer to the Marine Notice.Source: Ireland Department of Transport