National News: 4 Foreign ships under detention in the UK during May 2010
4 Foreign ships under detention in the UK during May 2010
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that 4 foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during May 2010 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.
Latest monthly figures show that there were 3 new detentions of foreign flagged ships in UK ports during May 2010 and 1 vessel under detention from the previous month. The overall rate of detentions compared with inspections carried out over the last twelve months was 2.97% this is down from April's twelve month rate.
During the month of May 145 Port State Control inspections were carried out in the UK. A total of 48 vessels had no deficiencies raised against them, 66 had between one and five deficiencies, 24 had between six and ten deficiencies, 6 had between eleven and twenty deficiencies and 1 vessel inspected had more than twenty deficiencies.
Out of the detained vessels, 2 were registered with flag states listed on the Paris MOU white list, none were registered with flag states on the grey list, 1 was registered with a flag state on the black list and 1 was not flagged.
1. In response to one of the recommendations of Lord Donaldson's Inquiry into the prevention of pollution from merchant shipping and in compliance with the EU Directive on Port State Control (95/21/EC as amended), the Maritime and Coastguard agency (MCA) publishes full details of the foreign flagged vessels detained in UK ports each month.
2. Inspections of foreign flagged ships in UK ports are undertaken by surveyors from the MCA. Where a ship is found to be deficient or lacks the required documentation, MCA surveyors can take a range of actions leading to detention in serious cases. The UK is part of a regional agreement on port state control known as the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MOU) and information on all ships that are inspected is held centrally in an electronic database known as SIReNaC. This allows the ships of flags with poor detention records to be targeted for future inspection.
3. Detained ships have to satisfy surveyors that remedial work has been carried out before they are allowed to leave port.
4. When applicable the list includes those passenger craft prevented from operating under the provisions of the EU Directive on Mandatory Surveys for the safe operation of regular Ro-Ro ferry and high speed passenger craft services (1999/35/EU).
Posted Monday June 21st 2010
By Maritime And Coastguard Agency