Paris MoU inspections now reach your PSC register on their own

Since October the PSC register has been filled by hand: someone in the office takes Form A and Form B and types the inspection in. From today, inspections in Paris MoU ports arrive by themselves.

Where the data comes from. The Paris MoU publishes the results of individual inspections in a daily file for organisations that hold a data sharing account. SuperRonin has one, and the Secretariat confirmed that its data may be shown inside our application to the company that manages the vessel. Each morning after 07:30 CET we read the new file, keep the inspections of vessels that are in a SuperRonin fleet, matched by IMO number, and drop the rest of the file straight away. Nothing from it is published or passed on.

What you see. A Paris MoU inspection appears in PSC inspections with the date of the first visit, the port, the type of inspection (initial, more detailed or expanded) and the detention, with its release date and length when the ship was held. The row is marked "imported", and the number of deficiencies the Paris MoU reports counts as open until you add the lines. Below the list, on the inspection page, on the vessel card, on printed sheets and at the foot of a CSV export there is a line naming the Paris MoU as the source, with the date of retrieval and a link to parismou.org. That is a condition of using the data.

What stays yours. The date, port and detention of an imported row come from the file and are read-only. The deficiency lines, their closure, the evidence, files and the conditions you make from them are yours, as before. If you had already entered the same inspection by hand (same vessel, same day give or take one), the import links to your row instead of making a second one, and keeps everything you wrote.

The bell. A new Paris MoU inspection of one of your vessels, or a detention, rings the bell for the owner, admins and the superintendents who see that vessel. Older history arrives without a ring: when you add a vessel, its inspections from the past year appear quietly.

What it does not cover yet.

• Only ports of the 27 Paris MoU states: the EU coast, the United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Canada and Montenegro. Inspections in Turkey, Ukraine, Georgia, Russia or North Africa (Black Sea and Mediterranean MoU) are still entered by hand.
• The file holds one year of inspections. Older ones stay in your register only if you entered them.
• The file carries deficiency codes but not the action taken codes, so a condition's due date still comes from what you enter from Form B.

Turning it off. The import is on for every organisation. An owner or admin can switch it off under Organisation in the settings; inspections already imported stay where they are.

The port is named from the UN/LOCODE list (Rotterdam, Piraeus), and its code stays on the inspection page. If an inspection you expected does not appear, check that the vessel's IMO number is filled in on its card: a vessel without one gets a reminder in its PSC block. To prepare for the next one, the PSC inspection checklist and the action taken codes guide are a good place to start.