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Technical Notices

INDIAN MoU – Annual Report 2019

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Indian Ocean MoU issued its annual PSC report, noting an increase in total number of inspections in 2019, compared with those in 2018. The number of detentions, detention rate and the number of under performing ships have started to decrease in 2019.

As of December 2019, twenty countries have become parties to the Memorandum. They are: Australia, Bangladesh, Comoros, Eritrea, France (La Reunion), India, Iran, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Oman, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and Yemen.

A total of 5943 inspections were carried out in 2019. Out of these 5943 inspections, 2852 inspections had deficiencies and the total numbers of deficiencies were 10960.

Serious deficiencies noted by the PSCOs led to the detention of 232 ships and needed to be rectified prior to the ships’ departure; the overall detention percentage for the year was 3.9%.

There was increase in total number of inspections in 2019, compared with those in 2018; and the detention percentage decreased from 4.42 % recorded in 2018.

The average number of deficiencies per inspection in 2019 (1.84) has slightly decreased compared to the previous year (2.07).

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