BALSA 89

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2010s · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE)

BALSA 89 is a 2013 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 24 inspections since 2015, most recently in October 2025, along with 2 deficiencies and 6 operational controls.

Records from 2015 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 27 October 2025.

Built: 2013
Last inspected: 27 October 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 September 2026
Inspections: 24
Deficiencies: 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date

Identity

US Official No.

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IMO number

9616046 View on MarineTraffic leaves Maury; a third-party site, nothing from it is stored here

Call sign

3EWN6

MISLE id

1229190

Flag

PANAMA

MMSI

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Maury page id

psix-1229190

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations11

…administrative events7

…with no type recorded6

Years with a record 10 calendar years (2015–2025)

The 24 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 it7760 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
10474 - Displacement, Metric Ton
5698 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
2606 - 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 · 24

27 October 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 8258985

21 September 2025 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8238216

1 August 2025 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8201917

1 August 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8202233

13 November 2024 COE-Administrative

Administrative · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 8034002

10 July 2024 COE-Administrative

Administrative · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 7955315

26 July 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7752901

29 June 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7726484

3 March 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7645078

16 August 2022 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7535328

17 July 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7509219

17 July 2022 COE-Offshore

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7509234

17 January 2021 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7125834

10 October 2019 ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6828782

3 July 2019 Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6729305

2 July 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6733342

24 September 2018 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6547639

29 May 2018 PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Canaveral · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6427285

23 May 2017 ISPS III Exam · Ballast Water Examination · COE-Dockside · PII Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6147460

30 March 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6113693

6 March 2017 COE-Dockside · ISPS III Exam

Physical examination · Sector Maryland-National Capital Region · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6094514

22 April 2016 ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 5855796

24 December 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5790996

22 December 2015 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 5786134

Deficiency record · 2

11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Stowage and provision of liferafts

Issued 16 August 2022 Resolved

The liferaft painter system shall provide a connection between the ship and the liferaft and shall be so arranged as to ensure that the liferaft when released and, in the case of and inflatable liferaft, inflated and not dragged under by the sinking ship. PSCO observed improper installation of painter system. 74SOLAS20 III/13.4.2 LSA 4.1.6.1

Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Due 23 August 2022
Resolved 23 August 2022
Resolution: Crew reattached painter to proper location.

03 - Water/Weathertight Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (load lines)

Issued 16 August 2022 Resolved

The ringlines and letters shall be painted in white or yellow on a dark ground or in black on a light ground. PSCO observed paint rubbed off load line marking. ICLL (88 prot) Reg 8

Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 14 October 2022
Resolved 14 October 2022
Resolution: Master provided photgraphic evidence and Class Report that Load Line markings had been repainted.

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.