KWAI KWAI

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · USCG East District (CGD-E)

KWAI KWAI is a freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 2017, most recently in November 2024, along with 3 deficiencies.

Records from 2017 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 7 November 2024.

Built: Not recorded
Last inspected: 7 November 2024
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 7 November 2024

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 (2017–2024)

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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9780976

V7YD8

1436432

Flag

MARSHALL ISLANDS

Maury page id

psix-1436432

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it32372 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
32372 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
19449 - Displacement, Metric Ton
19449 - 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 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

7 November 2024 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Virginia · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8028193

2 July 2017 PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6162961

Deficiency record · 3

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

Issued 7 November 2024 Resolved

THE RING, LINES AND LETTERS SHALL BE PAINTED IN WHITE OR YELLOW ON A DARK GROUND OR IN BLACK ON LIGHT GROUND. PSCO OBSERVED THAT THE PORT LOAD LINES WERE NOT PAINTED. ICLL I/REG8 16BC

Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 21 November 2024
Resolved 19 November 2024
Resolution: load line and plimsoll have been repainted correctly

03 - Water/Weathertight Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Cargo & other hatchways

Issued 7 November 2024 Resolved

AT POSITIONS 1 AND 2 THE HEIGHT ABOVE THE DECK OF HATCHWAY COMINGS FITTED WITHWEATHER TIGHT HATCH COVERS OF STEEL OR OTHER EQUIPMENT MATERIAL FITTED WITH GASKETS AND CLAMPING DEVICES SHALL BE AS SPECIFIED IN REGULATION 15(1). PSCO OBSERVED DRY ROTTED GASKETS ON MULTIPLE HATCH CLAMPS ON MULTIPLE CARGO HOLDS. IICL I/REG16.1 40AC

Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 16 December 2024
Resolution: Received NKK Report attesting to repairs.

03 - Water/Weathertight Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Railing, gangway, walkway and means for safe passage

Issued 7 November 2024 Resolved

SATISFACTORY MEANS FOR SAFE PASSAGE REQUIRED BY REGULATION 25 IN THE FORM OF GUARD RAILS,LIFE LINES, GANGWAYS OR WEATHER DECK PASSAGES ETC. SHALL BE PROVIDED FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CREW IN GETTING TO AND FROM THEIR QUARTERS , THE MACHINERY SPACE AND ANY OTHER SPACE USED IN THE ESSENTIAL OPERATION OF THE SHIP. PSCO OBSERVED BROKEN RUNS ON STARBOARD GUARD RAIL LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE OF CARGO HOLD #2 ON THE MAIN DECK. IICL I/REG25.4 40AC

Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 16 December 2024
Resolution: Received NKK Report attesting to repairs.

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.