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STATISTICS

C NK’ P S C A RLASS S ORT TATE ONTROL NNUAL EPORT lassi? cation society ClassNK in July released its annual Tokyo MOU report on Port State Control. The report aims to assist ship Also according to the Tokyo MOU annual report, in cases

Coperators and management companies in maintaining where a ship’s certi? cates were issued by more than one recog- compliant operations by providing information about ships de- nized organization (RO), the number of inspections would be tained by PSC as well as de? ciencies that were found on board counted towards both of organizations, while the number of de- from many port states in 2018. This comprehensive Annual Re- tentions would be counted only towards the RO that issued the port on Port State Control (PSC) summarizes de? ciencies iden- certi? cate relating to the detainable de? ciency or de? ciencies. ti? ed during PSC inspections carried out in various countries In 2018, 31,589 inspections were carried out in the Tokyo MOU around the world. According to ClassNK, the report is prepared region, and 934 ships were detained due to serious de? ciencies with the objective of building awareness with the present state found onboard. The following table depicts Inspections and De- of PSC and thereby improving future onboard maintenance and tentions per Recognized Organization (Tokyo MOU): inspections, and as well as Safety Management Systems.

Recognized No. Inspections No. Detentions Detention

Chapter 5, in particular, should be of great interest to MLPro

Organization 2016 - 2018 2016 - 2018 Ratio (%) readers. It contains statistical data from three key organizations;

ABS 11,353 213 1.88 the Tokyo MOU, Paris MoU and the United States Coast Guard.

BV 11,439 360 3.15

CCS 7,580 58 0.77

Because these and other regional MOUs and Port States publicly

CRS 141 8 5.67 announce their PSC data on their websites and publish Annual

DNV GL 27,584 606 2.20

Reports every year, ClassNK was able to introduce abstracts of

IRS 261 11 4.21 the recent results of detentions by the Tokyo MOU, the Paris

KR 9,545 165 1.73

MoU and the USCG in 2018. The similarities and differences

LR 14,569 318 2.18 between the three are telling. The data is voluminous and there

NK 32,754 812 2.48

PRS 135 9 6.67 are many ways to look at it. In this case, we’ll look at inspections

RINA 3,125 93 2.98 and detentions per Recognized Organization – or in other words

RS 1,382 57 4.12 – the IACS Classi? cation Society responsible for each vessel.

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