KEN GIANT

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2000s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

KEN GIANT is a 2009 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 2018, most recently in May 2025, along with 3 deficiencies.

Records from 2018 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 13 May 2025.

Built: 2009
Last inspected: 13 May 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 2
Deficiencies: 3 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

Coast Guard record current through 23 August 2026, retrieved 5 September 2026 from PSIX. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard. Records for the Bulk Carrier class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 13 May 2025

Recorded inspections2

…physical examinations2

Deficiencies 3 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 2 calendar years (2018–2025)

Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. A blank resolution means none was recorded in this data; it does not establish that a deficiency is outstanding. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Identity

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9515694

A8SL5

1055800

Flag

LIBERIA

Maury page id

psix-1055800

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it17018 - Simplified, Gross Ton
17018 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
10104 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
10104 - Simplified, Net Ton
28323 - Dead Weight, Ton
34753 - Displacement, Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 August 2026 as served by NOAA Fisheries, so no documentation record is shown. Absence from that file is a fact about the file, not about the hull.

Vessel history report

A report is not offered for this hull. Its record holds only 1 of the seven kinds of material a report is built from: inspections, deficiencies, operational controls, tow-unit appearances, casualty records, dimensions and documentation. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspection history · 2

13 May 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8130824

18 April 2018 ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6393562

Deficiency record · 3

Engineering › Pressure Vessel › Piping

Issued 18 April 2018 Resolved

The machinery, boilers and other other pressure vessels, associated piping systems and fittings shall be of a design and construction aqequate for the service for which they are intended and shall be so installed and protected as to reduce to a minimum any danger to persons on board...Sea water cooling system was found to have serveral soft patches (at least 20), including a cemement box patch.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Due 2 May 2018
Resolved 4 May 2018
Resolution: Class report from NKK indicated that vessel employed two extra fitters while at berth in Stockton. Vessel replaced all of the patched piping which emcompassed over 20 patches along 12 stretches of pipe.

Operations/Management › Vessel Safety Management › Reports and Analysis

Issued 18 April 2018 Resolved

The SMS shall be maintained in accordance with the ISM code. The SMS should include procedures ensuring that non-conformities, accidents and hazardous situations are reported to the company... Vessel did not report excessive patching of the ship's salt water cooling system.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 60 - Rectify deficiencies prior to movement
Due 2 May 2018
Resolved 4 May 2018
Resolution: Vessel completed an Internal ISM audit by class surveyor from NKK. Surveyor noted that the vessel failed to report the excessive patching and recommended placing signage saying "no soft patches" throughout the vessel.

Pollution Prevention/Response › Prevention Equipment › Marine Sanitation Device, Type II

Issued 18 April 2018 Resolved

Each part of the device (marine sanitation device) that is required by the manufacturer's instructions is to be serviced routinely and readily accessible in the installed position of the device recommended by the manufacturer. Ship's engineers were not provided with the correct tablets for the MSD system.

Condition: Invalid
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 18 April 2018

Ownership record

The Coast Guard's documentation record for this hull -- the Abstract of Title, with its owners and liens as filed -- is not in PSIX. Ask, and Maury buys it from the National Vessel Documentation Center, files it here with its date, and every reader of this page gets it.