The Maritime & Coastguard Agency has announced that 5 foreign ships were under detention in UK ports during March 2008 after failing Port State Control inspection.
Latest monthly figures show that there were five detentions of foreign-flagged ships in UK ports during March 2008 and two vessels under detention from previous months. The overall rate of detentions compared with inspections carried out over the last twelve months was 5.1% a slight decrease on February s' twelve month rate. During the month of March 120, Port State Control inspections were carried out in the UK. A total of 28 vessels had no deficiencies raised against them, 51 had between one and five deficiencies, 29 had between six and ten deficiencies 11 had between eleven and twenty deficiencies and there was 1 vessel inspected that had more than twenty deficiencies. Out of the detained vessels, five were registered with flag states listed on the Paris MOU white list, one was registered with a flag state on the grey list and one was not listed. 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. Detained ships have to satisfy surveyors that remedial work has been carried out before they are allowed to leave port.
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