TJ VANDA

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

TJ VANDA is a 2004 freight ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 3 inspections since 2016, most recently in September 2025, along with 3 deficiencies and 1 operational control.

Records from 2016 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 23 September 2025.

Built: 2004
Last inspected: 23 September 2025
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 3
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 23 September 2025

Recorded inspections3

…physical examinations3

Deficiencies 3 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 3 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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9284556

VRUD8

764804

Flag

PANAMA

Maury page id

psix-764804

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it29398 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
17662 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
60763 - Displacement, Metric Ton
52686 - Dead Weight, 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 · 3

23 September 2025 PSC B

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8235686

24 October 2018 PII Safety Exam · COE-Offshore · ISPS II Exam · Ballast Water Examination · Deficiency Check · Administrative Inspection

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6567215

22 April 2016 Ballast Water Examination · PII Safety Exam · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 5860136

Deficiency record · 3

14 - Pollution Prevention › 141 - MARPOL Annex I › Oil filtering equipment

Issued 24 October 2018 Resolved

MARPOL ANNEX I/14.6 MEPC.60(.33)/6.2.2 Oil filtering equipment shall be such as will ensure that ny oily mixture discharged into sea after passing through the system has an oil content not exceeding 15ppm. The arrangement on board ships for the extraction of sample from the discharge line to the meter should give a truly representative sample of the effluent. During operational test, the fresh water valve was left open potentially diluting the sample. The sample line was found clogged not allowing a sample to reach the OCM while the OWS was in operation.

Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Resolved 26 October 2018
Resolution: Class report verified new procedures in place rectifying the deficiency.

11 - Life Saving Appliances › N/A - No Subsystem › Immersion suits

Issued 24 October 2018 Resolved

74 SOLAS (2014) III/34 LSA CODE 2.3.1.1.1 All life-saving appliances and arrangements shall comply with the applicable requirements of the Code. An immersion suit shall be unpacked and donned without assistance within 2 min. 04 crew members were not able to don the immersion suit with life jacket within 2 min.

Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 7 November 2018
Resolved 7 November 2018
Resolution: Class report verified crew members were able to unpack and don immersion suits w/ life jackets w/o assistance within 2 minutes. Deficiency rectified.

02 - Structural Conditions › N/A - No Subsystem › Ballast, fuel and other tanks

Issued 24 October 2018 Resolved

33 CFR 151.2026(c) To ensure the safe and effective management and operation of the AMS equipment, the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of the vessel must ensure the AMS is maintained and operated in conformity with the system specifications. Vessel's ballast water management system is inoperable due to damaged electronic magnet valve. Vessel shall not discharge ballast water into US waters.

Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 26 October 2018
Resolution: Class report attesting to the rectification of the Ballast Water Treatment system. Technician for BWTS conducted 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.