STAR JAPAN

Freight Ship · Bulk Carrier class · Built 2000s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

STAR JAPAN is a 2004 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 2016, most recently in May 2025, along with 1 deficiency.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 28 May 2025.

Built: 2004
Last inspected: 28 May 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 12
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 Bulk Carrier class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 28 May 2025

Recorded inspections12

…physical examinations8

…administrative events4

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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9254654

LAZV5

704588

Flag

NORWAY

Maury page id

psix-704588

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it32844 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
13085 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
44807 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
57244 - 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

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 · 12

28 May 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8142229

13 November 2024 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Delaware Bay · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8034025

18 May 2024 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Puget Sound · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 7908144

28 July 2022 In-Service Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7516961

15 July 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7507569

15 January 2020 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6887759

17 October 2019 Administrative Inspection · Deficiency Check

Physical examination · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6839654

9 August 2019 Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector St Petersburg · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6777817

10 July 2019 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6745219

11 January 2019 ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam · Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Portland OR · USCG Northwest District (CGD-NW) · Activity 6603143

1 November 2016 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector North Carolina · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6033260

5 October 2016 Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam · PII Safety Exam

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6016496

Deficiency record · 1

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

Issued 9 August 2019 Resolved

To discharge ballast water into the waters of the US, the master, owner, operator, agent or person in charge of a vessel subject to 33CFR151.2025 must either ensure that the ballast water meets discharge standard in 151.2030(a), use an AMS described in 151.2025(a)(3), or ballast with water from a US public water system/to a facility as described in 151.2025. STAR JAPAN, keel laid 27DEC2003 last DD JUN2019, with ballast water capacity of 15,539 cubic meters, is past its compliance date and fitted with a BWTS. BWTS was not used and vessel intends to discharge in port. As the vessel is past its compliance date, discharge of untreated ballast into US waters is not permitted.

Condition: Placed in Improper Service
Action required: 15 - Rectify deficiencies by next port
Resolved 22 October 2019
Resolution: Received class and tech report. System repaired and operational.

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.