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HANDY MERCHANT

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2020s · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW)

HANDY MERCHANT is a 2024 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 2 inspections since 2024, most recently in February 2025, along with 2 deficiencies.

Records from 2024 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 5 February 2025.

Built
2024
Last inspected
5 February 2025
Documentation
Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections
2
Deficiencies
2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls
None recorded without a removal date

Identity

US Official No.
—
IMO number
9984508
Call sign
3E5380
MISLE id
1835718
Flag
PANAMA
Maury page id
psix-1835718

Inspections, by type

…physical examinations2
Years with a record 2 calendar years (2024–2025)
The 2 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 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.

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it25240 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross 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.

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. Reports.

Inspection history · 2

5 February 2025 Deficiency Check
Physical examination · Sector Columbia River · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 8075331
23 September 2024 PSC A
Physical examination · Sector San Francisco · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 8007739

Deficiency record · 2

14 - Pollution Prevention › 147 - Anti-Fouling › Other (AFS)
Issued 5 February 2025 Resolved
The master, owner, operator... in charge of any vessel equipped with ballast water tanks that operates in the waters of the United States must... remove fouling organisms from the vessel's hull. PSCO observed significant organism growth on vessel hull below the waterline. 33 CFR 151.2050(f) 40c
Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 5 February 2025
Resolved 5 February 2025
Resolution: Received, reviewed and accepted proper documentation from technicians report stamped by Flag stating the deficiency was rectified. Report states that vessel hull and propeller organism growth were cleaned from off the vessel.
14 - Pollution Prevention › 147 - Anti-Fouling › Other (AFS)
Issued 23 September 2024 Resolved
The master, owner, operator... in charge of any vessel equipped with ballast water tanks that operates in the waters of the United States must... remove fouling organisms from the vessel's hull. PSCO observed significant organism growth on vessel hull below the waterline. 33 CFR 151.2050(f) 40c
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 23 September 2024
Resolved 5 February 2025
Resolution: Received, reviewed and accepted proper documentation from technicians report stamped by Flag stating the deficiency was rectified. Report states that vessel hull and propeller organism growth were cleaned from off the vessel.

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.