Six foreign ships under detention in UK during November
Dave Shirlaw
London, 13 January/GNN/ --
MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY News Release (Press Notice No: 006-09) issued
by COI News Distribution Service. 13 January 2009
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that six foreign
flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during November 2008 after
failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.
Latest monthly figures show that there were five new detentions of foreign
flagged ships in UK ports during November 2008 and one vessel under
detention from the previous month. The overall rate of detentions compared
with inspections carried out over the last twelve months was 3.97% this is
slightly down from Octobers' twelve month rate.
During the month of November 148 Port State Control inspections were carried
out in the UK. A total of 46 vessels had no deficiencies raised against them,
65 had between one and five deficiencies 28 had between six and 10 deficiencies
five had between 11 and 20 deficiencies and there were four vessels inspected
that had more than 20 deficiencies. Out of the detained vessels, two were
registered with flag states listed on the Paris MOU white list, one was
registered with a flag state on the grey list, two were registered with flag
states on the black list and one was registered with an unlisted flag state.
Vessels detained in November included:
A 14,431 GT Bulk Carrier was detained in Silvertown London for 11 days because
all the caps were missing from the ventilator pipes and the batteries were
not charged for the reserve source of energy. A major non conformity was
raised because of the number and nature of the deficiencies - 36 in total
which indicated a breakdown in the safety management system against section
10 of the ISM Code
A 1,163 GT Other Cargo vessel was detained in Ridham because there were no
charts available for the port approach nor other charts corrected to date. And
there was a 9 degree error on the gyro repeater. A major non conformity was
identified in respect of the navigational shortcomings that had not been
addressed during the previous port state control. In addition the latest
notices to mariners were not on board and the largest scale charts were not
being used. This vessel had been previously detained in Harwich in June 2007.
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