The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced on friday that five foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during July 2011 after failing Port State Control ( PSC) inspections.
Latest monthly figures show that there was one new detention of a foreign flagged ship in UK ports during July 2011 and four vessels remained under detention from previous months. The overall rate of detentions compared with inspections carried out over the last twelve months was 3.25%, which is slightly down from Junes twelve month rate.
Out of the detained vessels none were registered with flag states listed on the Paris MOU white list, two were registered with flag states on the grey list, one was registered with a flag state on the black list and two were unregistered.
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Source: MCA, August 22, 2011.