Records in 2022. Most recent: inspection, 16 November 2022.
13 - Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery › N/A - No Subsystem › Operation of machinery
Issued 16 November 2022
No resolution recorded
The Machiner, boilers and other pressure vessels, associated piping systems and fittings shall be of a design and construction adequate for the service for which they are intended and shall be so installed protected as to reduce to a minimum any danger to the persons on board, due regard being paid to moving parts, hot surface and other hazards. The cooling system on the number one main cylinder had continuous leaking and appears to be wasted at the seal. SOLAS 97 (2022 Consolidated) CH II-1 Reg 26.1
Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 16 December 2022 — due date passed with no resolution recorded
04 - Emergency Systems › N/A - No Subsystem › Emergency steering position com./ compass reading
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
In every ship under 10,000 GT the alternative power supply shall have a capacity of at least 10 minutes of continuous operation of the steering gear power unit. Alternative power supply for steering gear could not be identified or prove operation. 74 SOLAS (97) II-1/29.14 17ac
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Due 21 October 2022
Resolved 27 October 2022
Resolution: Recieved documentation from the vessel indicated rudder stock under 230mm thus not applicable.
10 - Safety of Navigation › N/A - No Subsystem › Gyro compass
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
All ships, irrespective of size, shall have aproperly adjusted standard magnetic compass, or other means, independent of any power supply, to determine the ship's heading and display the reading at the main steering position. Aft steering compass was still in packaging not ready to be displayed. 74 SOLAS (20) V/19.2.1 15ac
Action required: 15 - Rectify deficiencies by next port
Due 21 October 2022
Resolved 27 October 2022
Resolution: Recieved flag dispensation to correct fully in future.
15 - Safety Management Systems (ISM) › N/A - No Subsystem › Company responsibility and authority
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
The Company should establish procedures by which the ship's personnel receive relevant information on the safety management system in a working language or language understood by them. SMS plans are vague, not ship specific, and procedures provided are in a language not understood by officers and crew and no copy being provided in the ship's working language. PSCO requires that an internal SMS audit is conducted. (Also includes but not limited to procedures/maintenance plans in engine room: OWS, Steering, FCP-Fire Control Plan posted in ER) 74 SOLAS (20) IX/3.1 ISM Code 6.5 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
02 - Structural Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Closing devices/watertight doors
Issued 21 October 2022
No resolution recorded
All access openings in bulkheads at ends of enclosed superstructures shall be fitted with doors which the means for securing weathertight shall consist of gaskets and clamping devices. Several weathertight doors on the main deck either had gaskets falling off or are wasted along the outer edges. ICLL (88 Proto) 12.1 50ac
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 20 November 2022 — due date passed with no resolution recorded
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Maintenance and inspections
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
Lifeboats and rescue boats shall be subject to a thorough examination and operational testduring annual surveys. Lifeboat and rescue boat inspection certificates were last conducted in May and September of 2021 and are overdue. 74 SOLAS (20) III/20.11.4 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
01 - Certificates & Documentation › 011 - Ships Certificates › International Oil Pollution Prevention (IOPP)
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
An initial survey before the ship is put in service or before the certificate required under regulation 7 of this Annex is issued for the first time, which include a complete survey of its structure, equipment, systems, fittings, arrangements...This survey shall be such as to ensure that the structure, equipment...fittings...fully comply with the applicable requirements of this Annex. Supplement to the IOPP Certificate's retention and disposal of oil residues (sludge) (regulation 12) is missing lube oil sludge purifier tank having capacity of 0.15 cubic meters. This tank is used by crew for collecting lube oil sludge waste that is recorded as a retention tank in the vessel's ORB Part 1. MARPOL I/6.1.1 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
Doors required to be self-closing shall not be fitted with hold back hooks. Multiple fire resistant self-closing doors in the main stairwell and division boundaries were found open with hooks. 74 SOLAS (97) II-2/47.2 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
01 - Certificates & Documentation › 011 - Ships Certificates › International Oil Pollution Prevention (IOPP)
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
An initial survey before the ship is put in service or before the certificate required under regulation 7 of this Annex is issued for the first time, which include a complete survey of its structure, equipment, systems, fittings, arrangements...This survey shall be such as to ensure that the structure, equipment...fittings...fully comply with the applicable requirements of this Annex. When testing oily water separator filtering equipment. local audible alarm is inoperable and engine room control alarm panel incorrectly displays alarm code no. 922 for AUX BOILER PRESS STEAM instead of alarm code 918, 919 for oily water separator. MARPOL I/6.1.1 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire fighting equipment and appliances
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
Fire extinguishers shall be periodically examined and subjected to such tests as the Administration may require. Multiple portable fire extinguishers were found missing periodic inspections. 74 SOLAS (1997) CH. II-2 Reg. 6.5 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Lifebuoys incl. provision and disposition
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
All life-saving appliances prescribed in LSA shall be resistant to deterioration and rot-proof. Life buoys found on deck are heavily deteriorated and beginning to rot with retroflective tape deteriorated to no longer assist in detection. 74 SOLAS (20) III/34 LSA Code 1.2.2 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › On board training and instructions
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
A training manual complying with the requirements of paragraph 3 shall be provided in each crew mess room and recreation room or in each crew cabin. Training manual was not provided in crew mess room and recreation room, and the training manual was also not provided in the working language of the crew. 74 SOLAS (20) III/35.2 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
04 - Emergency Systems › N/A - No Subsystem › Emergency steering position com./ compass reading
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
The steering gear compartment shall be provided with suitable arrangements to ensure working access to machinery and controls to include gratings or nonslip surfaces to ensure working conditions in the event of hydraulic fluid leakage. Steering gear compartment flooring is not adequately nonslip. 74 SOLAS (97) II-1/29.13.2 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
99 - Other › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (Safety in general)
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
CG011 The master, owner, operator, agent or person in charge of anyvessel equipped with ballast water tanks that operates in the waters of the US must: Maintain a BBWM Plan that must include: Detailed fouling maintenance procedures. Vessel BWMP does not contain fouling maintenance procedures. 33 CFR 151.2050(g)(3) 40ac
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 21 October 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
10 - Safety of Navigation › N/A - No Subsystem › Record of drills and steering gear tests
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
No person may cause a vessel to enter into or get underway on the navigable waters of the US unless, at required time intervals, before entering or getting underway the following equipment has been tested. Vessel did not perform or make record of required tests. 33 CFR 164.25 40ac
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 21 October 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
02 - Structural Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Steering gear
Issued 21 October 2022
Resolved
Any main and auxiliary gear control system operable from the navigation bridge shall comply with the following: in the event of a failure of electrical power supply to the control system, an audible and visual alarm did not activate during test of the main steering gear control failure from the navigation bridge and steering gear room. 74 SOLAS (97) II-1/29.8.4 40ac
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 21 October 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
02 - Structural Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Steering gear
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
Any main and aux steering gear control system operable from the bridge shall be capable of being brought into operation from a position on the navigation bridge. The No. 2 steering gear was not operational during transition test from No. 1 to No. 2. Submit technical report to Class. 74 SOLAS (97) II-1/29.8.3 17ac
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Due 21 October 2022
Resolved 27 October 2022
Resolution: Recieved documentation from class attesting to repairs, and copy of tech report.
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (fire safety)
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
All exposed surfaces in service spaces shall have low flame spread characteristics. The galley flame hood has grease buildup which would cause a flame to spread. 74 SOLAS (97) II-2/49.1 15c
Action required: 15 - Rectify deficiencies by next port
Due 21 October 2022
Resolved 27 October 2022
Resolution: Vesesl provided pictures of the cleaned galley hood.
07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
Stairways which penetrate only a single deck shall be protected at least at one level by at least B-0 class division and self-closing doors. A-0 door on boat deck stairway is not self-closing. 74 SOLAS (97) II-2/46.1 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
01 - Certificates & Documentation › 013 - Documents › Oil record book
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
Each operation described in paragraph 2 of this regulation shall be fully recorded without delay in the Oil Record Book Part 1, so that all entries in the book appropriate to that are completed. Vessel's ORB Part 1 is missing an entry for bunker delivery operations (Order No. 324129) conducted in Port Suao on October 04, 2022 for LSMF-180. MARPOL I/17.4 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Lifebuoys incl. provision and disposition
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
If the lifebuoy is intended to operate the quick-release arrangement provided for self-activated smoke signals and self-igniting lights, have a mass of not less than 4kg. The bridge wing life buoys both weighed less than 4kg with weathered lines. 74 SOLAS (20) III/7.1.1 LSA Code 2.1.1.7 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Distress flares
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
Not less than 12 rocket parachute flares, complying with the requirements of section 3.1 of the Code, shall be carried and be stowed on or near the navigation bridge. The navigation bridge had 10 rocket parachute flares. 74 SOLAS (20) III/6.3 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
01 - Certificates & Documentation › 011 - Ships Certificates › Cargo Ship Safety Radio (including exemption)
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
A Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate shall be issued to a cargo ship which complies with relevant requirements of the present regulations. CSSR Cert Form R does not account for Search and Rescue Transponders on board vessel. 74 SOLAS (20) I/12(a)(iv) 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
09 - Working and Living Conditions › 092 - Working Conditions › Guards - fencing around dangerous machinery parts
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
The machinery...and fittings shall be so installed and protected as to reduce to a minimum any danger to persons on board, due regard being paid to moving parts, other surfaces, and other hazards. Missing machinery guard over turning gear in way of hand crank for emergency fire pump. 74 SOLAS (97) II-1/26.1 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
10 - Safety of Navigation › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (navigation)
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
Simple operating instructions with a block diagram showing the change over procedures for remote steering gear control systems and steering gear power units shall be permanently displayed on the navigation bridge. The block diagram onboard was completely in Japanese which the crew cannot read. 74 SOLAS (20) V/26.3.1 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
99 - Other › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (Safety in general)
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
CG016 The master, owner, operator, agent or person in charge of any vessel equipped with ballast water tanks that operates in the waters of the US must: Train the master, operator, person in charge, and crew on the application of the ballast water and sediment management and treatment procedures. Crew training and familiarization with BWMP logs were blank. 33 CFR 151.2050(h) 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
10 - Safety of Navigation › N/A - No Subsystem › Nautical publications
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
Nautical charts and nautical publication, such as sailing directions, list of light, notices to mariners, tide tables and all other nautical publications necessary for the intended voyage, shall be adequate and up to date. Vessel did not have applicable tide tables or Coast Pilot. 74 SOLAS (20) V/27 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
09 - Working and Living Conditions › 092 - Working Conditions › Other (accident prevention)
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
Main and emergency switchboards shall be so arranged as to give easy access to apparatus and equipment, without danger to personnel. Where necessary, nonconductive mats or gratings shall be provided at the front and rear. Multiple swwtchboards of 225-440V were found obstructed and without shock protection. 74 SOLAS (97) II-1/29.13.2 50ac
Action required: 50 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 30 days
Due 20 November 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
01 - Certificates & Documentation › 013 - Documents › Garbage record book
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
The entry for each discharge or incineration shall include category and estimated amount discharged or incinerated. Garbage record book entries did not list each category or amounts separately as required. MARPOL Annex V Reg. 10.3.2 40ac
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 21 October 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
01 - Certificates & Documentation › 013 - Documents › Fire control plan - all
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
Fire Control plans must refer to resolution A.654(16) concerning graphical symbols for fire control plans. Fire control plan contains several symbols that do not conform to resolution (i.e. fire locker, fire pump, etc.) and do not show indication of required fire resistant self-closing doors. 74 SOLAS (1997) CH. !!-2 Reg. 20 40ac
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 21 October 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022
11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Launching arrangements for rescue boats
Issued 19 October 2022
Resolved
Where davit arms are recovered by power, safety devicesshall be fitted which will automatically cut off the power before the davit arms reach the stops in order to prevent such over stressing. Upon recovering the STBD lifeboat the limit switch when actuated did not stop the power for davit arms. 74 SOLAS (20) III/34 LSA Code 6.1.2 10c
Action required: 10 - Deficiency Rectified
Due 19 October 2022
Resolved 16 November 2022