Black Sea MOU (BS MOU) launches new inspection regime from January 1, 2016

Black Sea MOU (BS MOU) launches new inspection regime from January 1, 2016, says Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS).

New Inspection Regime is to harmonize risk based targeting and inspection system with the leading memorandas, namely Paris MOU and Tokyo MOU.

The existing ship targeting system adjusted to accommodate additional generic parameters (e.g. Flag, RO, and Company performances), weighting points for each parameters, amendment of levels of the ship risk profile and determination of frequency of inspection of for each risk level, benefiting experience after four years of in depth comparative study of the leading PSC inspection regimes and considering discussion at IMO on the small flags.