MDS SOFIA

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2010s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

MDS SOFIA is a 2012 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 11 inspections since 2016, most recently in July 2025, along with 1 deficiency and 2 operational controls.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 15 July 2025.

Built: 2012
Last inspected: 15 July 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 11
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

Identity

US Official No.

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IMO number

9609689 View on MarineTraffic leaves Maury; a third-party site, nothing from it is stored here

Call sign

5BPX3

MISLE id

1178616

Flag

CYPRUS

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-1178616

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations7

…with no type recorded4

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2016–2025)

The 11 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Coast Guard record current through 13 September 2026, retrieved 18 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 1981.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it45670 - Displacement, Metric Ton
37405 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
22668 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
11856 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton

This hull's Official Number is not in the NVDC file dated 10 September 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.

Radio station licence

No FCC ship-station licence is recorded against this Official Number in the file of 6 September 2026. That is a fact about the licence file, not about the radio.

Inspection history · 11

15 July 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8174734

9 May 2022 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7442262

24 January 2020 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6895291

29 March 2019 Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6652264

14 July 2018 Deficiency Check · ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Resident Inspection Office Ponce · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6467956

19 September 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6004516

19 September 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6004528

27 July 2016 COE-Dockside · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5940446

23 July 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5950175

23 July 2016 COE-Offshore

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5950189

22 July 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5949651

Deficiency record · 1

Construction/Loadline › Markings › Load Line Mark

Issued 27 July 2016 Resolved

0120- Load Line- The ring, lines, and letters shall be painted in white or yellow on a dark ground or in black on a light ground. They shall also be permanently marked on the sides of the ship to the satisfaction of the administration. The marks shall be plainly visible, and if necessary, special arrangements shall be made for this purpose. Both port and starboard load lines are not visible.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 27 July 2016
Resolved 13 July 2018
Resolution: Markings renewed, welded and painted. BV Class verified during Load Line inspection on 26JUN2017. New ILLC was issued on 27JUL2017.

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.