MCA: Nine Foreign Flagged Ships Detained in UK Ports During January 2012

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that nine foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during January 2013 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.

Latest monthly figures show that there were six new detentions of foreign flagged vessels in UK ports during January 2013 and three vessels remained under detention from previous months. The overall rate of detentions compared with inspections carried out over the last twelve months was 3.64% this is slightly up from December’s twelve month rate.

Out of the detained vessels five were registered with a flag state listed on the Paris MOU white list, two was registered with a flag state on the grey list, one was registered with a flag state on the black list, one was unregistered and none were registered with a flag state that was not included on the Paris MOU white, grey or black lists.

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MCA, March 7, 2013