SuperRonin News: port State control, P&I clubs and the IMO

This morning SuperRonin started reading flag and class circulars for the vessels in a register. The pilot came back with a longer list right away: IMO, classes, P&I clubs, flags and port State control. Those are the five places a technical manager watches, so the News section now covers all five.

P&I clubs. The vessel card has a P&I club field with the twelve International Group clubs in the suggestions. We read the circulars of the UK P&I Club, the member alerts of The Swedish Club and the news of Britannia today. A UK P&I line looks like the club writes it: "Circular 17/26", the title, the date and a link.

Port State control. The Paris MoU, Tokyo MoU and Abuja MoU publish refusals of access, concentrated inspection campaigns, safety bulletins and annual reports. These concern every ship whatever its flag, so they appear under News for every organisation. They ring the bell and go into the e-mail bulletin only for an organisation whose admin ticks the regime on the Circulars page.

One exception skips that tick. When a notice names one of your vessels by IMO number, as a Paris MoU refusal of access does, it lands in the bell of everyone who sees that vessel.

The IMO. News from the IMO What's New page shows up the same way: listed for everyone, in the bell for organisations that follow it.

Flags. Belize (IMMARBE) joins Zanzibar. Its notices come with their own numbers, such as MMN 26-005 or IMM-201 (26).

Class societies often re-post other people's documents. The Hellenic Classification Society's news page repeats ZMA circulars and Tokyo MoU bulletins. When the issuer itself lists the same document, its row is the one you see, with a note that the class digest has it too.

The page has a filter by kind now (flag, class, P&I club, PSC, IMO) and splits your vessels' sources from the ones every ship gets. We still copy only the number, date and title and link the original.

Missing your club, flag or class? Write to [email protected]. If you want the certificate side of the product, the launch post covers it.