Flag & Port State Flashcards
What is the flag states responsible for?
Flags states are responsible for ensuring that British vessels are inspected in accordance with both UK regulations and the appropriate international memoranda, conventions and protocols that the UK has ratified and adopted.
What was the Joint Concentrated Inspection campaign(CIC) for the à Paris MOU?
Stability.
What does it mean when a vessel has been Detained?
This is when an inspection reveals deficiencies which in the professional judgement of the inspector are clearly hazardous to safety, health or the environment!
Define a Prohibition Notice?
Identifies and prohibits the unsafe operation or use of an unsafe item of equipment!
It Gives notice that in the opinion of the named inspector, the stated activities, which are being carried out or likely to be carried out will involve a risk or imminent risk of serious personal injury or serious pollution of navigational waters.
What are levels of ship risk profile are assigned to ships under the Paris MoU?
High, Standard or Low
Which MSN can I find details of Port State Control?
MSN 1832 - the merchant shipping (port state control) regulations 2011
Define an Improvement Notice?
Is a notice stating to bring health and safety arrangements up to regulation standards within a specified period.
Non-observance of their requirements leads to prosecution by the issuing body.
What is Port State Control?
It is the inspection of foreign ships in national ports to verify that the condition of the ship and its equipment comply with the requirements of international regulations and that the ship is manned and operated in compliance with these rules.
What is the Paris Mou?
Is an organisation that wants to eliminate the operation of sub-standard ships through a harmonised system of port state control.
Inspecting foreign vessels to internationally agreed standards!
Explain ship risk profile?
Under the Paris MoU, ships calling in to ports in the Paris MoU region are assigned a risk profile, which is recalculated daily in the inspection database.
This rush profile determines the priority for inspection, intervals between inspections and the type of inspection.
What is flag state?
Is the inspection of national ships, to national and international standards normally done by your own surveyor of your own flag state!
What documents does a master need to submit when entering a foreign port?
DOCUMENTS FOR HARBOUR AUTHORITIES
- Certificate of Registry, to assess the nationality of the ship.
- International Tonnage Certificate, to determine the harbour dues.
- International Load Line Certificate.
- Solas Certificates Safety Certificates.
- Document of Safe Manning.
- International Oil Pollution Prevention Certificate (IOPP Certificate).
- Approval of Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (SOPEP).
- Certificate of Insurance or other Financial Security in Respect of Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage.
- Certificate of Class.
DOCUMENTS FOR IMMIGRATION
- Crew List (2 copies)
- Passenger List (2 copies)
- Crew passports
- Passenger’s Passports
