We are pleased to present the ninth 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 2010.
During the period between 1 January and 31 December 2010 time 4929 initial inspections carried out on foreign ships which resulted in 286 detentions. This represents a detention percentage of 5,80% which is almost same when compared with the previous year's detention percentage of 5,79%. The average number of deficiencies found per inspection decreased in 2010 (4,35) over 2009 (4,76).
Batumi, Georgia - Representatives of the Port State Control Committee, the governing body under the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Black Sea Regions (BS MoU), met in Batumi, Georgia, for the Twelfth session from 29 to 31 March 2011.
The meeting was chaired by Captain Ilker TUNCER, Undersecretariat Maritime Affairs of Turkey. The meeting was officially opened by the Head of Maritime Administration of Georgia Mr. Teimuraz IOBIDZE. In his speech Mr. Iobidze welcomed all delegates to Batumi and expressed the pleasure to host the Committee meeting in Batumi. He commended the significant development and the success of activities of the BS MOU and highlighted progress on port State control achieved in Georgia. Finally, Mr. Iobidze reaffirmed the commitment of Georgia to continue to take an active role in the activities of the BS MOU to eliminate substandard shipping in the region.
In accordance with the decision of the Port State Control Committee, the concentrated inspection campaign (CIC) on the Tanker Damage Stability in the Black Sea region was conducted from 01 September till 30 November 2010 under coordination of the Russian Federation.
Within the campaign the Black Sea MOU Authorities gathered information regarding the application of damage stability to tankers in order to ensure existing IMO instruments are enforced in a consistent manner.
The six member Maritime Authorities (Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine) of the Black Sea Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control will start a
concentrated inspection campaign on Tanker Damage Stability compliance as of 1st September 2010 in parallel with the Paris MOU. The inspection campaign will last 3 months ending on 30 November 2010.
The CIC inspections will be conducted in conjunction with routine port State control inspections and during every port State control inspection within the Black Sea region.
We are pleased to present the eights 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 2009.
2009 was another active year for port State control in the Black Sea region; 4805 inspections carried out on foreign ships which resulted in 278 detentions. This represents a detention percentage of 5,79% which is a decrease of 0,58% when compared with the previous year’s detention percentage of 6,37%. The average number of deficiencies found per inspection is also decreased.
This result is likely to be the consequence of improvements made to our risk-based inspection targeting system, and also the result of the concentrated inspection campaigns which were running during the year. More information on both these areas is contained within the report.
The BS MOU member Authorities will persist with their efforts to eliminate the substandard element of the shipping industry, while working with those who seek to raise ship standards, to ensure the safety of seafarers and passengers and to protect the marine environment.
Annual Report for 2010