<\/p>\n
European marine inspectors continue to find detention-worthy deficiencies aboard visiting ships at a higher rate than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Paris MoU on Port State Control's annual report.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the average detention rate across the group's member states came to 3.8 percent – slightly less than in 2022, but much higher than the 2.9 percent rate in 2019, the last year before COVID-19. The number of outright ship bans has declined compared to the pre-COVID period.<\/p>\n
The evaluation and ranking of the world's flag states – the Paris MoU's best-known product – remains similar to last year, with the largest open registries ranked in the middle of the "white" and "gray" lists. Denmark leads the pack with a detention rate of just under one percent, and Cameroon ranks last at 28 percent, sharing the bottom-most designation of "very high risk" with Tanzania. <\/p>\n
The newly-emerging flag of Gabon – a registry that has been discovered by the Russian "shadow fleet" and has attracted considerable attention – has had too few inspections in Europe to be ranked this year. About thirty others fall in the same category, like Mongolia, Nigeria, Tuvalu and Equatorial Guinea. <\/p>\n
The Paris MoU noted one important change for 2023: Montenegro's maritime authority has joined the PSC consortium at last, closing a potential loophole for substandard shipping to enter European waters. "Ships with cargo destined for mainland Europe now have virtually no choice but to discharge that cargo in a port falling within the scope of the Paris MoU. This means that these ships are subject to the risk-based inspection methodology of the Paris MoU," the organization said. <\/p>\n
maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
European marine inspectors continue to find detention-worthy deficiencies aboard visiting ships at a higher rate than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Paris MoU on Port State Control's annual report. In 2023, the average detention rate across the group's member states came to 3.8 percent – slightly less than in 2022, but …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[21083,4485,1854,1751,645,8771,4612,13046,3383,1933],"class_list":["post-45395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-compared","tag-detentions","tag-era","tag-high","tag-mou","tag-paris","tag-paris-mou","tag-prepandemic","tag-remain","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/45396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}