Guides for ship technical managers
Port State control, action taken codes, detentions and inspection readiness, written for superintendents, with links to the rules they rest on.
- Preparing a ship for port State control: a practical checklist
Documents, records, drills and the equipment areas where most deficiencies are found, in the order an officer usually meets them, with links to the deficiency codes behind each item.
- PSC action taken codes: what 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 30 mean
The two-digit code next to each deficiency on Form B tells you how much time you have. What each common action taken code means for the ship and the office, and how to close it.
- The PSC ship risk profile: what decides how often you are inspected
How the Paris and Tokyo MoUs sort ships into high, standard and low risk, which parts of that you control, and what it means for the time between inspections.
- What to do after a PSC detention
The first hours, the rectification, the re-inspection and its cost, the review procedure if you disagree, and what a detention does to the ship's record.