Tag: ship inspections

Revised IMO guidelines for maintenance and inspection of fire protection systems and appliances

Coast Guard responds to fire caused by oil leak

LR Statutory Alert: Revised IMO guidelines on fire protection systems and appliances

Fire protection systems, appliances & compressed gas cylinders

North American ECA Related Deficiencies

Under the NIR, ships would be identified into three categories At the 23rd meeting of the Port State Control Committee in Singapore last month, the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Asia-Pacific Region (Tokyo MOU) decided to introduce a New Inspection Regime (NIR) for selection of ships from 1 January 2014. Bearing in mind the request by the Ministers at the 2nd Joint Ministerial Conference of the Paris and Tokyo Memoranda to harmonize PSC procedures to the highest level between the two regions, the Tokyo MOU NIR was developed by taking advantage of the one introduced in the Paris MOU a couple of years ago. Tokyo MOU will adopt related instruments in the next meeting held in October 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.Under the NIR, ships would be identified into three categories (i.e. high risk ships-HRS, standard risk ships-SRS and low risk ships-LRS) based on ship risk profile, which will be calculated automatically in the PSC database system (APCIS). Under the NIR, different time windows/inspection intervals would be applied to the corresponding categories of ships in accordance with the risk levels so that high risk ships would be subject to more frequent inspections while the quality/low risk ships ...

Nine Foreign Flagged Ships Under Detention in the UK during December 2012

WSS Opens Safety Centre in India

ITF inspectors follow up Baltic Ace

EMSA: Assuring Continuity for THETIS Information Sytem