We are pleased to present the thirteenth issue of the Annual Report on Port State Control in the Black Sea region which is published under the auspices of the Port State Control Committee of the Black Sea MOU. Port State Control is of particular importance to the BS MOU member Authorities due to the role of shipping in region’s trade, the sensitivity of the Black Sea basin and its coastline to environmental damage. Thereby BS MOU member Authorities have dedicated considerable resources to having a rigorous port State control program of the highest standard.
This PSC Annual report covers the period between 1st January and 31st December 2013. During this period the BS MOU member Authorties conducted a total of 5,080 initial inspections, representing 10.26% increase as compared with 4,607 initial inspections in 2012. The regional inspection rate is 63.62% which is 1.70% increase compared with 2012. A total of 184 detentions were warranted to ships found with serious deficiencies. This represents a detention percentage of 3.62% which is 1.05% decrease as compared with 215 detentions in 2012. During 2013 a total of 19,022 deficiencies were recorded. The average number of deficiencies per inspection was 3.74; resulting in a 0.15 deficiency point improvement.
Constanta, Romania – Representatives of the Port State Control Committee, the governing body under the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Black Sea Region (BS MoU), met in Constanta, Romania, for the Fifteenth session from 8 to 10 April 2014.
Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery carried out between 1 September 2013 and 30 November 2013 in the Black Sea MOU region shows the following preliminary results.
13 ships have been detained in the Black Sea MOU region during the course of the CIC through deficiencies relating to propulsion and auxiliary machinery. The most notable deficiencies concern documentary evidence of fitness of periodically unattended machinery spaces (7.24%), cleanliness of the engine room, including bilges (4.65%), protective arrangements for machinery to minimize danger to persons (3.19%) and operational conditions of the propulsion machinery and essential auxiliaries (2.19%).
The six member Authorities of the Black Sea Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (the Republic of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russian Federation, the Republic of Turkey and Ukraine) will start a concentrated inspection campaign on Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery. The three-month campaign will start on September 1, 2013 and end on November 30, 2013 under co-ordination of the State Inspectorate of Ukraine for Maritime and Inland Water Transport Safety. The campaign will be conducted simultaneously with the Paris MOU, Tokyo MOU and other MOUs.
We are pleased to present the eleventh issue of the Annual Report on Port State Control in the Black Sea region which is published under the auspices of the Port State Control Committee of the Black Sea MOU. The annual report outlines recent activities on port State control in the Black Sea region, as well as international perspectives on port State control and includes the statistical port State inspection data conducted by the member Authorities of the BS MOU during the year 2012.
During this period the BS MOU member Authorties conducted a total of 4,607 initial inspections, representing 1.07% decrease as compared 4,657 initial inspections in 2011. The regional inspection rate is 61.92% which is 7.96% decrease compared with 2011. A total of 215 detentions were warranted to ships found with serious deficiencies. This represents a detention percentage of 4.67% which is 0.68% decrease as compared with 249 detentions in 2011. During 2012 a total of 17,926 deficiencies were recorded. The average number of deficiencies per inspection was 3.89; resulting in a 0.24 deficiency point improvement.
Annual Report for 2013