ZOBU START

Tank Ship · Built 2000s · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H)

ZOBU START is a 2008 tank ship. The Coast Guard has recorded 21 inspections since 2016, most recently in December 2024, along with 2 deficiencies and 2 operational controls.

Records from 2016 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 7 December 2024.

Built: 2008
Last inspected: 7 December 2024
Documentation: Not in the documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 21
Deficiencies: 2 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 Tank Ship class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 7 December 2024

Recorded inspections21

…physical examinations9

…administrative events8

…with no type recorded4

Deficiencies 2 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 9 calendar years (2016–2024)

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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9367724

V7A6016

988326

Flag

MARSHALL ISLANDS

Maury page id

psix-988326

Documentation record

Tonnage as PSIX records it26911 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
13704 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
47186 - Dead Weight, Metric Ton
13704 - 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

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 2016 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspection history · 21

7 December 2024 COE-Administrative

Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8044582

6 December 2024 PSC B · COC-TVE Renew

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8042554

5 December 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8043765

2 July 2023 COC-TVE Annual · Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7728810

22 March 2023 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7655101

12 November 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Mobile · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7593239

10 June 2022 PSC B · COC-TVE Renew

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7468784

17 March 2022 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7413889

18 December 2021 Administrative Inspection

Administrative · Sector Corpus Christi · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7370030

7 June 2021 PSC B · COC-TVE Annual

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Lake Charles · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7215561

22 May 2020 COC-TVE Renew · PSC B

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6954741

6 April 2019 Ballast Water Examination · COC-TVE Annual · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6657102

15 February 2019 COE-Administrative

Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6626707

29 December 2018 COE-Administrative

Administrative · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6603797

20 November 2018 Ballast Water Examination

Physical examination · Sector New Orleans · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6584563

6 April 2018 Ballast Water Examination · COE-Dockside · ISPS II Exam · COC-TVE Renew

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6380798

6 April 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 6381034

12 April 2017 COC-TVE Annual · Ballast Water Examination · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Sector New York · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6122705

1 February 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6078333

31 January 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Jacksonville · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6080081

4 April 2016 Ballast Water Examination · COC-TVE Renew · ISPS II Exam

Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 5844766

Deficiency record · 2

06 - Cargo Operations Including Equipment › N/A - No Subsystem › Other (cargo)

Issued 6 December 2024 Resolved

NO ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT SHALL BE INSTALLED IN ANY SPACE WHERE FLAMMABLE MIXTURES ARE LIABLE TO COLLECT INCLUDING THOSE ONBOARD TANKERS UNLESS THE ADMINISTARTION IS SATISFIED THAT SUCH EQUIPMENT IS APPROPRIATELY CERTIFIED FOR SAFE USAGE IN VAPOURS LIKELY TO BE ENCOUNTERED. PSCO OBSERVED 05 CRACKED IGHTS IN THE CARGO PUMP ROOM. 74SOLAS(04) II-1/45.10.4 16AC

Condition: Damaged By Earlier Event
Action required: 16 - Rectify deficiencies w/in 14 days
Due 20 December 2024
Resolved 7 December 2024
Resolution: Vessel Crew has removed and replaced 05 defective lights. Files uploaded into documents under defs.

07 - Fire Safety › N/A - No Subsystem › Inert gas system

Issued 6 December 2024 Resolved

THE SYSTEM SHALL BE CAPABLE OF DELIVERING INERT GAS TO THE CARGO TANKS AT A RATE OF AT LEAST 125% OF THE MAXIMUM RATE OF DISCHARGE CAPACITY OF THE SHIP EXPRESSED AS A VOLUME. PSCO OBSERVED THE NO. 2 INERT GAS BLOWER INOPERABLE. 74SOLAS(20) II-2/4.5.5.1.3 07FSS 15.2.2.1.2 40AC

Condition: Invalid
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Due 14 December 2024
Resolved 14 December 2024
Resolution: Vessel provided Class report stating the IG blower has been repaired to the satisfation of class. Class report has been uploaded into documents.

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.