Enclosed Spaces: Indian Ocean MoU Detained Eight Ships
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Eight ships were detained during last year’s Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Crew Familiarization for Enclosed Space Entry, reports the Indian Ocean MoU.
The MoU’s port state members carried out the CIC between September 1 and November 30 last year in conjunction with the Tokyo MoU and the Paris MoU.
Preliminary results, released last week, show that the Indian Ocean MoU inspected 1,454 individual ships resulting in 83 detentions. Ships from 58 flags were given the CIC questionnaire, and the eight detentions represent a detention rate of 0.70 percent.
The highest number of CIC inspections were carried out on ships under the flag of Panama with 293 (25.76 percent) followed by Hong Kong with 141 (12.40 percent) inspections, Singapore with 108 (9.49 percent) and Liberia with 107 (9.41 percent) inspections.
Five flags had CIC-related detentions: Vietnam, Panama and Republic of Korea each had two, Japan and Saint Kitts & Nevis had one each. These flags cover 29.81 percent of the CIC inspections.
The type of ships detained for CIC-related deficiencies were four bulk carriers, two general cargo ships, one heavy load carrier and an offshore support vessel.
The most significant deficiencies found related to issues with:
1. Training in the use of the equipment by the crew members responsible for testing the atmosphere in enclosed spaces (four percent)
2. Crew members responsible for enclosed space emergency duties, familiar with those duties (four percent)
3. Availability of the training manual on board and its contents complete and customized to the ship (17 percent)
4. Participation of ship’s crew in an enclosed space entry and rescue drill on board the ship at least once every two months in accordance with SOLAS Chapter III, Regulation 19.3.3 (four percent)
5. Outcome of the enclosed space entry and rescue drill and compliance with the requirements of SOLAS Chapter III, Regulation 19.3.6 (five percent).
The results of the campaign will be presented to the 19th meeting of the Port State Control Committee in September 2016, after which the report will be submitted to the International Maritime Organization.
The Paris MoU and the Toyko MoU are yet to release their results on the CIC.
Indian Ocean MoU member states
Australia
Mauritius
Bangladesh
Mozambique
Comoros
Myanmar
Djibouti
Oman
Eritrea
Seychelles
Ethiopia
South Africa
France (La Reunion)
Sri Lanka
India
Sudan
Iran
Tanzania
Kenya Yemen
Maldives