The Panama Ship Registry stays on the Paris and Tokyo MoUs White Lists.
Panama JULY 20,2020 … Panama continues to be on the Paris MoU White List for the past ten consecutive years, complying with the rules required by the Paris MoU and thanks to a low number of detentions during the required period, according to the Paris MoU 2019 Annual Report, published in early July of this year.
Technical supervision and a careful inspection regime by the Panamanian Ship Registry, have allowed...
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has been recognized as a top-performing major flag State in the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding’s (MoU’s) Annual Report on Port State Control in the Asia-Pacific Region (the “Report”).
Covering port State control performance in 2019, the Report finds that the rolling average detention ratio for RMI vessels over the past three years was 2.19%. This is the lowest detention ratio of any of the top three registries. There were 2,995 RMI vessels inspected...
Tokyo MoU had adopted its COVID-19 guidance for port State Authorities on 12 March, in order to deal with the impact of the outbreak in a pragmatic approach in the region.
The guidance applied pragmatic relaxation on requests for extending periods of service onboard of seafarers,...
https://safety4sea.com/tokyo-mou-revised-guidance-on-dealing-with-covid-19/
Emergency System and Procedures results were released by The Indian Ocean MOU and Tokyo MOU, reports The Maritime Executive.
When was the campaign carried out?http://mfame.guru/crew-not-familiar-with-emergency-equipment-operation-shows-mous-cic-results/
The guidance potentially includes extending periods of service onboard of seafarers, delaying periods for surveys, inspections and audits, etc., but the Secretariat did not reveal more specific details.
The guidance is prepared based on the general...
https://safety4sea.com/tokyo-mou-to-adopt-guidance-for-dealing-with-covid-19-impact/
During the campaign, Tokyo MoU member Authorities verified vital points of compliance in accordance with Emergency systems and procedures on all types...
https://safety4sea.com/tokyo-mou-preliminary-results-of-cic-on-emergency-systems/
Tokyo MoU issued a Safety Bulletin to inform of the potential risks of using improperly rigged pilot ladders. This comes in response to several reports from pilots and pilot associations indicating that vessels are improperly securing their pilot ladders to the ship.
As explained, a large number of reports relate to the use of pilot ladders which are too long relative to the vessel’s draughts.
As a result, the excessively long ladders require shortening up before being deployed for boarding...
https://safety4sea.com/tokyo-mou-risks-of-improperly-rigged-pilot-ladders/
As a result, the wire ropes may be seriously corroded due to passage of moisture/air inside and yet go undetected.
Serious incidents have occurred during...
The Tokyo and Paris Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) on port State control (PSC) have been working collaboratively to ensure that vessel owners and operators are aware that under the Authorities belonging to these MoUs, inspections will be undertaken to ensure compliance with the new sulphur limit requirements on marine fuel oil, from 1 January 2020.
These new requirements prohibit the use of non-compliant fuel from 1 January 2020 and the carriage of non-compliant fuel, for use on the ship,...
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/prohibition-on-carriage-of-non-compliant-fuel/
Port state control organization Tokyo MOU has accepted Panama as the 21st member authority.
https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/285203/tokyo-mou-welcomes-panama-as-full-member/