T551 CIC Paris MOU

Subject
PSC Concentrated Inspection Campaign on Structural

Safety and the International Convention on Load Lines
Technical
Information
No. TEC-0859
Date 1 August 2011
To whom it may concern
Paris MOU and Tokyo MOU are planning the following PSC Joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign
(CIC) in 2011
Items of Concentrated inspection: Structural Safety and the Load Line Convention
Campaign period: From 1 September 2011 to 30 November 2011
During this campaign Port Sate Control Officers (PSCOs) will verify applicable documents and
aspects as loading instruments, the protection of hatch openings, the vessel’s hull, bulkheads, and deck
and other features of the Load Line Convention and structural integrity in more detail.
The states party of the Viña del Mar Agreement, the Indian MOU, the Mediterranean MOU and the
Black Sea MOU will follow the same routine during the campaign.
For this purpose PSCOs will be guided by a questionnaire listing a number of items to be covered
during this concentrated inspection. The questionnaires will be published on the websites of Paris
MOU and Tokyo MOU in the beginning of August 2011.
For any questions about the above, please contact:
NIPPON KAIJI KYOKAI (ClassNK)

Survey Department, Administration Center, Head Office
Address: 4-7 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8567, Japan
Tel.: +81-3-5226-2027 / 2028
Fax: +81-3-5226-2029
E-mail: [email protected]
Attachment:
1. Paris MOU and Tokyo MOU Press Release for CIC on Structural Safety and the International
Convention on Load Lines
NOTES:
 ClassNK Technical Information is provided only for the purpose of supplying current information to its readers.
 ClassNK, its officers, employees and agents or sub-contractors do not warrant the accuracy of the information contained
herein and are not liable for any loss, damage or expense sustained whatsoever by any person caused by use of or
reliance on this information.
 Back numbers are available on ClassNK Internet Homepage (URL: www.classnk.or.jp).
Attachment 1. to
ClassNK Technical Information No.TEC-0859
Press release
21 July 2011
LAUNCH OF CONCENTRATED INSPECTION

CAMPAIGN ON STRUCTURAL SAFETY AND THE
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON LOAD LINES
BEGINNING 1 SEPTEMBER 2011 BY PARIS AND
TOKYO MOU ON PORT STATE CONTROL
The 45 Maritime Authorities of the Paris and the Tokyo Memoranda on Port
State Control will begin a joint concentrated inspection campaign with the
purpose to ensure compliance with structural safety and the Load Line
Convention. This inspection campaign will be held for 3 months, ending on
30 November 2011. The States party of the Viña del Mar Agreement, the
Indian Ocean MOU, the Mediterranean MOU and the Black Sea MOU will
follow the same routine during the campaign.
The background for this CIC is that, as an average for the last 8 years, deficiencies
related to structural safety and load lines account, for 15% of the total number of
deficiencies. Furthermore, structural safety for ship types other than bulk carrier
and compliance with the Load Line Convention in general have never been
addressed with the special attention typical for a CIC.
During this campaign Port State Control Officers (PSCOs) will verify applicable
documents and aspects as loading instruments, the protection of hatch openings,
the vessel’s hull, bulkheads and deck and other features of the Load Line
Convention and structural integrity in more detail.
For this purpose PSCOs will be guided by a questionnaire listing a number of items
to be covered during this concentrated inspection. The questionnaires will be
published on the websites of Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU in the beginning of
August.
When deficiencies are found, actions by the port State may vary from recording a
deficiency and instructing the master to rectify within a certain period to detention
of the ship until deficiencies have been rectified.
In case of detention, publication in the monthly list of detentions available on the

Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU web pages will take place.
The results of the campaign will be analysed and findings will be presented to the
governing bodies of the MoUs’ for submission to the IMO.
Contact
Paris MOU Tokyo MOU

Mr. Richard W.J. Schiferli Mr. Mitsutoyo Okada
General Secretary Paris MoU Secretary, Tokyo MOU Secretariat
on Port State Control Ascend Shimbashi 8F
PO Box 90653 6-19-19, Shimbashi,
2509 LR The Hague Minato-ku, Tokyo
The Netherlands Japan 105-0004
Tel: +31 (0)70 456 1509 Tel: +81-3-3433 0621
Fax: +31 (0)70 456 1599
Fax: +81-3-3433 0624
E-mail: [email protected]
Web-site: www.parismou.org E-mail: [email protected]
Web-site: www.tokyo-mou.org
Notes to editors:
Paris MOU Tokyo MOU

Regional Port State Control was initiated in 1982 The Memorandum of Understanding on Port
when fourteen European countries agreed to co- State Control in the Asia-Pacific Region, known
ordinate their port State inspection effort under a as the Tokyo MOU, was signed among eighteen
voluntary agreement known as the Paris maritime Authorities in the region on 1
Memorandum of Understanding on Port State December 1993 and came into operation on 1
Control (Paris MOU). Currently 27 countries are April 1994. Currently, the Memorandum has 18
member of the Paris MOU. The European full members, namely: Australia, Canada, Chile,
Commission, although not a signatory to the China, Fiji, Hong Kong (China), Indonesia,
Paris MOU, is also a member of the Committee. Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New
Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines,
The Paris MoU is supported by a central the Russian Federation, Singapore, Thailand,
database THETIS hosted and operated by the Vanuatu and Vietnam.
European Maritime Safety Agency in Lisbon.
Inspection results are available for search and The Secretariat of the Memorandum is located
daily updating by MoU Members. Inspection in Tokyo, Japan. The PSC database system, the
results can be consulted on the Paris MoU Asia-Pacific Computerized Information System
public website and are published on the Equasis (APCIS), was established. The APCIS center is
public website. located in Moscow, under the auspices of the
Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.
The Secretariat of the MoU is provided by the
Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and the
Environment and located in The Hague.
Port State Control is a check on visiting foreign ships to verify their compliance with international
rules on safety, pollution prevention and seafarers living and working conditions. It is a means of
enforcing compliance in cases where the owner and flag State have failed in their responsibility to
implement or ensure compliance. The port State can require defects to be put right, and detain the
ship for this purpose if necessary. It is therefore also a port State’s defence against visiting
substandard shipping.

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PSC Concentrated Inspection Campaign on Structural

Campaign period: From 1 September 2011 to 30 November 2011

For any questions about the above, please contact:

NIPPON KAIJI KYOKAI (ClassNK)

LAUNCH OF CONCENTRATED INSPECTION

In case of detention, publication in the monthly list of detentions available on the

Paris MOU Tokyo MOU

Paris MOU Tokyo MOU

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