Foreign flagged ships under detention in the UK after PSC inspection
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that 12 foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during March 2012 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection, The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) press release said.
Latest monthly figures show that there were two new detentions of foreign flagged ships in UK ports during April 2012 and ten vessels remained under detention from previous months. The overall rate of detentions compared with inspections carried out over the last twelve months was 3.31% this is slightly up from Marchs twelve month rate.
Out of the detained vessels four were registered with a flag state listed on the Paris MOU white list, six were registered with a flag state on the grey list none were registered with a flag state on the black list and two were unregistered.