Port State Control

The port State control is the parent control of ships, which is carried out in the ports of the signatory States.

History

The sailing under the flag of Liberia's oil tanker Amoco Cadiz ran Amoco Transport Co. in 1978 before Brittany aground, broke and about 200,000 tons of crude oil leaked into the sea. Thus, the largest oil disaster created Europe. In the root cause analysis is astounding gaps in monitoring the technical condition of the ships and the search for the owner of the ship and the persons responsible for the damage resulted. It was not until four years later was responding. On France's initiative was established to allow a qualitative classification of the flag States and the classifications with the support of 14 European countries a higher-level facility. In Paris was signed by these states the "Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control ," which was commonly known as the Paris MOU or abbreviated as "Port State Control ". It was, inter alia, stipulates that the States have to check in their ports merchant ships under a foreign flag without notice. 2010 have signed this memorandum, commonly referred to as " port state control ", 27 States. There will be annual reports, which are listed "bad" occupied with port ban ships and flag states and classification are examined.

The port State control is divided into nine regional MOU areas, whose areas of overlap partially:

  • U.S. Coast Guard - United States Only ( the only purely national organization )
  • Paris MOU - States in Northern and Central Europe as well as Canada and the CIS
  • Tokyo MOU - States in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Chile, Canada, and CIS
  • Latin America ( Viña del Mar) MOU - States in Latin America
  • Caribbean MOU - states in the Caribbean
  • Mediterranean MOU - States in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa
  • Indian Ocean MOU - countries in Southern and East Africa, the Persian Gulf, the Indian subcontinent and Australia
  • Abuja MOU - States in West Africa and South Africa
  • Black Sea MOU - States on the Black Sea and the CIS
  • Riyadh (GCC ) MOU - United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait

Port State Control in Germany

The defined goal it was until the end of 2010, each year at least 25 percent of the ships under foreign flag, calling at German ports, unannounced to control. From the beginning of 2011 is considered a new visit regime that rewarded with a risk-based approach well-run and inconspicuous vessels under port state control and striking ships inspected frequently and thoroughly. The basis for, among other ship data and results from previous visits ( flag, age and type of vessel, flag state, classification society, snares, number and type of defects). It may include the results of previous port State control inspections be viewed as all transactions and events that affect an individual ship. The visits are made ​​in Germany since 1982 by captains and engineers of the Ship Safety of the professional association Transport (formerly See-BG ). The port State inspectors must complete an intensive training program prior to approval.

Classifications and arrest

Using the database THETIS classifications of flag States to be made, which will be published in the form of lists. So the flags with the fewest interceptions in the White List and performed with most complaints and the highest risks in the black list will be. In addition, in a large table all flag States are listed with the number of the examined vessels, number of defects and the number of arrestierten ships with their flag state. Very interesting are the results concerning the types of ships. The 9543 inspections of general cargo ships in the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 led to an average of around 7% were arrested. In the bulkers ( 3176 inspections) were around 5%, container ships ( 3551 inspections) were approximately 2.5%, for tankers (1923 inspections) and passenger ships ( 968 inspections) were arrested 1.7% each of the vessels inspected.

Strengthening port State control

The misfortunes of the Italian classification society Rina supervised Erika (1999) and Prestige (2002), responsible classification society was the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), showed in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of Spain, that the existing equipment of the instrument on Port State Control was not enough. Therefore, it has been refined to finally adds additional parameters and also to the classification of the shipping companies or the operator. In addition, a motivation was introduced, which rank very well cut ships ' quality ships " that drive at least 24 months without additional port state control. The classified as risk Cruise ships are subjected to at least every six months, a port state control in the sphere of the Paris MoU. When incidents occur, the vessels can be controlled in addition of course.

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