MSC AURORA

Freight Ship · General Dry Cargo Ship class · Built 2010s · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW)

MSC AURORA is a 2012 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 9 inspections since 2016, most recently in March 2025, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 11 March 2025.

Built: 2012
Last inspected: 11 March 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 9
Deficiencies: 1 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 General Dry Cargo Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 11 March 2025

Recorded inspections9

…physical examinations6

…administrative events2

…with no type recorded1

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

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

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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9484481

3FAT3

1277905

Flag

PANAMA

Maury page id

psix-1277905

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it154494 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
197777 - Displacement, Metric Ton
143521 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
83512 - Convention (Subpart B), Net 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 2 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 · 9

11 March 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8089656

20 July 2023 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7747461

5 January 2022 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7375922

26 February 2020 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6916763

25 February 2020 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6915169

29 October 2019 Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6844505

1 July 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6732503

28 June 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6728470

10 August 2016 PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 5968868

Deficiency record · 1

02 - Structural Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Loading/Ballast condition

Issued 26 February 2020 Resolved

FOLLOWING INSTALLATION, THE MASTER, OWNER, OPERATOR, AGENT, OR PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE VESSEL MUST PROPERLY MAINTAIN THE BWMS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL MANUFACTURER SPECIFICATIONS. VESSEL'S BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IS INOPERABLE. VESSEL SHALL NOT DISCHARGE BALLAST WATER INTO US WATERS.

Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 26 February 2020
Resolved 29 June 2020
Resolution: Vessel provided satisfactory class report attesting to the repair.

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.