Port State Control

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 24 July 2018.

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Photo of Karl Turner Karl Turner Shadow Minister (Transport)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vessels were detained in UK ports after port state control inspection by Maritime and Coastguard Agency officials in each year since 2015; and if he will list the five most common grounds for detention in each of those years.

Photo of Nusrat Ghani Nusrat Ghani Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport), Assistant Whip (HM Treasury)

The number of vessels detained in UK ports after port state control inspections by Maritime and Coastguard Agency officials in each year since 2015 is shown below:

Year

Detentions

2015

41

2016

40

2017

40

The five most common grounds for detention is neither analysed nor published by the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Member States. Information about the common grounds for detention is not readily available in the format requested.

However, the Paris MoU does publish the most common deficiencies, which may singularly or as a combination prompt the detention of a vessel. The five most common deficiencies across the Paris MoU are shown below:

Year

Deficiency relating to:

2015

International Safety Management code

Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions

Nautical publications

Charts

Oil record book

2016

International Safety Management code

Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions

Nautical publications

Charts

Oil record book

2017

International Safety Management code

Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions

Nautical publications

Charts

Voyage or passage plan

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