TAI SPRING

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

TAI SPRING is a 2015 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 17 inspections since 2017, most recently in January 2026, along with 1 deficiency and 4 operational controls.

Records from 2017 to 2026. Most recent: inspection, 19 January 2026.

Built: 2015
Last inspected: 19 January 2026
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 17
Deficiencies: 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

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 19 January 2026

Recorded inspections17

…physical examinations8

…administrative events3

…with no type recorded6

Deficiencies 1 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 7 calendar years (2017–2026)

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

—

9771092

3EDA3

1418837

Flag

PANAMA

Maury page id

psix-1418837

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it35308 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
20728 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
62487 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
73090 - Displacement, Metric 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

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 2016 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

This report is in development and is not for sale yet. There is no date, and nothing is charged. Leave an email and we will tell you when it exists, once.

Inspected as a tow unit · 2

The Coast Guard recorded this vessel and the following in the same inspection activity — normally a tug and the barges in its tow. A recreational or unclassed hull in the same activity is held and not published, so it does not appear here: these lists are a floor, not a complete manifest.

UNIVERSE Freight Ship · MISLE 1161958 · 19 May 2019 · activity 6758677 GLADYS B Towing Vessel · MISLE 1426875 · 19 May 2019 · activity 6758677

Inspection history · 17

19 January 2026 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8298279

12 September 2023 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7790397

22 June 2023 Ballast Water Examination · In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7721020

27 April 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7676725

27 April 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7676896

7 March 2022 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7407111

2 March 2022 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7404288

20 August 2020 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7017317

2 August 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7022273

24 May 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6692659

19 May 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6687883

19 May 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6758677

7 February 2019 ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6612374

11 March 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6369769

26 May 2017 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6155992

17 May 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6148094

17 May 2017 Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6148241

Deficiency record · 1

Operations/Management › Ballast Water Managment › Ballast Exchange

Issued 26 May 2017 Resolved

9900-Other-Vsls equipped with ballast tanks that operate in US waters must employ one of the BWM methods listed in 33 CFR 151.2025. Vessel has an approved AMS described in 33 CFR 151.2025(a)(3),but failed to use AMS while conducting BW exchange prior to entry to US waters. Vsl is prohibited from discharging ballast water until one of the management requirements in 33CFR 151.2025(a) is met.

Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 26 May 2017
Resolved 29 May 2017
Resolution: The vessel left the Lower Mississippi River, proceeded offshore 12nm and completed a ballast water exchange through their approved ballast water treatment system

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.