THE UK has not had a seriousoil spill since the Sea Em-press incident six years agobut the Maritime & Coast-guard Agency (MCA) came infor some criticism in a majorreport published this week.

Among the key findings in areport called “Dealing withPollution from Ships”, pub-lished by the National AuditOffice (NAO), the MCA was toldit should be able to demon-strate that the UK is meetingits commitments under inter-national counter-pollutionconventions.

This should be achieved byensuring that all ports andharbours have plans in placeto deal with a medium-size oilspill and have staff trained tobe able to regularly test theplans. It was found that onlyabout 40% of the 170 local

coastal authorities have at-tended MCA training sessionsand 53 authorities have con-tingency plans introduced be-tween five and 11 years ago.

Despite a considerable sav-ing of around £1.7m by out-sourcing some of its services,further savings can be madeby sharing surveillance air-craft and counter-pollutionequipment with other regula-tory bodies or by signing con-tracts for its supply with com-mercial interests.The reportalso called on the MCA to re-view all the resources at itsdisposal, to assess its ability tocope with a major spill and inparticular to be able to dealwith more than one incidentsimultaneously.

As part of its post-incidentevaluation, records should bekept of how much pollution is

prevented or how much of itspotential damaging effectshas been reduced.

NAO also suggests that theMCA should work more closelywith the relevant governmentdepartment to bring the re-quirements of the interna-tional protocol on hazardousand noxious substances (HNS)into UK law.The MCA shouldalso ensure that all majorports and harbours imple-ment measures as soon aspossible to deal with any inci-dent involving HNS.

The so-called “pay to bepaid” type of insurance poli-cies are a major problem.Here the MCA is recommendedto co-operate with the depart-ment and other maritime au-thorities to prohibit such in-surance.Wider recovery pow-ers should be investigated in

the cases of “one-ship” com-panies, especially where thereare sister concerns.

The other major recom-mendation is that the Mer-chant Shipping legislationshould be revised to ensurethat pollution incidents maybe prosecuted under the UK’soil pollution laws whereverincidents occur within the UKPollution Control Zone. (Seealso page 23.)

Fifteen demonstrators at-tacked the German-owned,Swedish-chartered, Isle ofMan-flag 3,300-dwt generalcargoship Fagervik (built1980) when it arrived at Nor-rkoping, south of Stockholm,on 4 June.They accused theship of dumping about 1,000litres of oil in the Baltic last

year while sailing under thename of Figaros, despite aSwedish court acquittal of themaster and chief engineer.

Fagervik’s Norrkopingagent claims the demonstra-tors did not stop the loadingoperations and the vesselsailed for Vesteras on 7 June,returning to Norrkoping on 10June, when the activists struckagain. It sailed later that dayfor the UK.

At the time of the alleged oilspill, Figaros was chartered topaper group Sjowalls, whichwent bankrupt earlier thisyear.The Swedish Air Forcehad spotted an oil slick behindthe cargoship as it was sailingoff the Swedish coast on 13February 2001. Upon inspect-

ing the ship, the Swedish Na-tional Shipping Agency foundthat the oily-water separatorhad been bypassed eventhough it was functioning nor-mally. Figaros was detained inNorrkoping and oil samplestaken.

On 6 June, the Nykopingprosecutor handed a writ tothe Norrkoping Court accus-ing the master and chief engi-neer of deliberately dumpingthe oil.A fine of SEK10m ($1m)was demanded. Both the offi-cers denied the charge, sayingthat if any oil was spilled, ithad been unintentional.Theprosecution failed to prove itscase and the officers were ac-quitted.

Greenpeace also accuses

the present charterer Jon-ssonNova of operating fourships in the Baltic that havebeen detained by port-statecontrol authorities for variousreasons over the years.

As a result of the action,seven Greenpeace activistsare facing serious charges andtwo have been in prison forover a week.

The group claims that be-tween 1,000 and 2,000 oilspills occur in the Baltic annu-ally. Because of the Baltic’svery small tidal range and lit-tle or no current, concentra-tions of fossil hydrocarbonsare three times higher than inthe North Sea.

The IMO has classed theBaltic as a “Special Area”.

••• “Port-state control is a fact oflife,” pronounced Lloyd’s Register(LR)’s Alan Gavin at Posidonia. Atleast somebody’s got the message.He was explaining that LR was go-ing public on its port-state control(PSC) record.

Although many deficiencies arenot class related, this is a step in theright direction, which other soci-eties should follow. Only then willthe oft-quoted class-society claimof being top of the pile with a zeroPSC record be taken seriously.

One area being highlighted is“detentions related to ship flagstate”. This could prove to be quiterevealing. However, it must be re-

membered that many flags arespecifically targeted, meaning thatthe “blue chip” societies would nottouch them with a barge pole un-less their ships are managed by rep-utable concerns. LR is to present athree-month round-up at Septem-

ber’s Mare Forum meeting inAthens, which should make inter-esting listening.With flak flyingaround everywhere, often aimed atthe class societies, let us hope this isnot just a public relations exercise,nor just a piece of one-upmanship.

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61 Kommunards yard . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Aas, Hans Petter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 21Able Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12AIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Airtours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Akahori,Teruo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Alendal Rederi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Alliance Management . . . . . . . . . . . 8Alpha Tankers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10American Carriers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7American Marine

Advisors (AMA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 28Anders Wilhelmsen group . . . . . . . 6Antonatos, Dimitris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20AP Moller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Aponte, Gianluigi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Applied Industrials Materials

Corp (Aimcor). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Arison, Micky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Arminter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Atlanship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Bank One Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Barclay Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Barnes, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18BCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Beloussis, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Benetton family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Bistis, Dimitrios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Bluewater Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Booth, Simon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Boulis, Konstantinos "Gus". . . . . . . 25BP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 12BrokerLink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Bryant, Dennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Brynestad,Atle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Buisson,Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Bulk Ocean Chartering . . . . . . . . . . 7Burns, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Carnival Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 24CC Bulk Carriers Investors. . . . . . . 23Cenargo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22CH Sorensen & Sonner . . . . . . . . . . 6Chantiers de l’Atlantique . . . . . . . . 10, 23, 25ChevTex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Chinese Petroleum Corp . . . . . . . . . 13Chryssoulis, Konstantinos . . . . . . . 23Chung Mong-hun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Citibank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Clarkson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2ClassNK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 39CMA CGM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Cohen,Yoram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Concordia Maritime . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Conover, Pam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23CP Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Cruise West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Cruiseinvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Cunard Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23D’Amico Societa di Navigazione. . 15Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine

Engineering Co (DSME) . . . . . . . 4, 28Daiichi Chuo Kisen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Danaos Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Davies, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2de Spon, Nick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Den norske Bank (DnB) . . . . . . . . . 19, 20, 21DFDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 39Dickinson, Robert and Jolynn . . . . 24Doubray, Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Dubai Shipping Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Dunlop, Graeme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Dusung Shipping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6EA Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Eastern Mediterranean Maritime 12Edwards, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34El Paso Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Emirates National Oil Co. . . . . . . . . 12Eriksson, Bert-Aake . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Essco Sea Carriers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39FH Lorentzen,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Forrest, Mathew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Fortis Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Frank, Howard and Mary . . . . . . . . 24Fredriksen, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 21Frontline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Gavin,Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Gdynia shipyard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 17Gemarfin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Global Money Consultants . . . . . . . 23Gold Star. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Goldbeit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Gram, Peter D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Grimaldi Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Grimaldi, Emanuele . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Guangzhou Shipyard

International. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Haji-Ioannou, Polys . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Halkias, Stylianos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Hanjin Shipping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Hansa Mare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Hanseatic Shipping Co . . . . . . . . . . 23Hobbs, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Holland & Knight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Holland America Line . . . . . . . . . . . 24Hurley, Gabrielle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Hyundai Heavy Industries . . . . . . . 9, 10Hyundai Merchant Marine. . . . . . . 27, 28Ilias Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Imabari Shipbuilding . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Independent Average Adjusters . . 34JonssonNova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38JP Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21K Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 15, 27Kanellakis,Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Keppel Shipyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Khodorkovsky, Mikhail . . . . . . . . . . 8Kinakh,Antoliy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Knecht, Dan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Korea Development Bank. . . . . . . . 28Korea Lease and Financing . . . . . . 6KS American Bulkers . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Lainer, Robin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Lamy, Pascal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Lanterman, Kirk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Latvian Shipping Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Laurel Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Liberian International Ship and

Corporate Registry (LISCR). . . . 4

Liikanen, Errki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Lone Star RS Platou . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Luna,Andres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4MacPhail, Sir Bruce . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Malaysia International

Shipping Corp (MISC) . . . . . . . . . 9Malaysian Merchant Marine . . . . . 12Mangels, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Mannear, Steven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Marcussen, Brynjulf . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Marine Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Maritime Security Group . . . . . . . . 3Marsano, Carlo Andrea . . . . . . . . . . 17Martinos,Thanassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Meandros Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Mediterranean RoRo Network . . . 40Mediterranean

Shipping Co (MSC) . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Merritt, Ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Miles, Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL). . . . . . . . . 13, 19, 27Monti, Mario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Mozdzynski, Jerzy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Naviera F Tapias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Ness, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Ness, Risan & Partners. . . . . . . . . . . 28NIB Capital Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Nichimen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Nordea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Norsong Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Northrop Grumman

Ingalls Shipyard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Norton Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). . . . 25Oian,Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Oldendorff Carriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Olsson Eriksson, Madeleine. . . . . . 16Olsson, Dan Sten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 16Oman LNG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27One Equity Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29P&O Ferries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22P&O Nedlloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Pacific International Lines . . . . . . . 15Pan Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Pant, Enn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Peckham, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Pentow Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Perez,Arnaldo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Peters, Russ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Petrafesa, Geralyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Polish Steamship Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Premuda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Prokopakis, Iraklis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Prunier, Dominque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Pullmantur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Radisson Seven Seas Cruises . . . . 24Rasmussen group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Ray Shipping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Rederi AB Gotland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Roche, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Royal Caribbean Cruise

Line (RCCL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Royal Olympic Cruise

Line (ROC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Samsung Heavy Industries . . . . . . 11, 28Sara, Heikki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Sea Dream Yacht Club . . . . . . . . . . . 24Seatrans group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Sen Huang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Sessanlinjen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Shaaban, Salem bin Mohammed . 27Shaari, Shahraazi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Shenzhen Great Ocean

Shipping Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Simpson Spence & Young (SSY) . . 5Smit Marine South Africa . . . . . . . . 34SNPF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19South African Marine Corp . . . . . . 12Spanish Cruise Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Spliethoff group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Stachura,Andrzej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Standard Steamship Owners’

P&I Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Starmarine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Steckmest,Tom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 11Steimler, Kim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Stena group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 16Stena Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Sterling, Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Storebrand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Strade Blu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Sultan, Hussain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Sumitomo Heavy Industries . . . . . 9SunCruz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Swan Hellenic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Szczecin Shipyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Szczesniak, Krzystofjan. . . . . . . . . . 12Szlanta, Janusz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Tallink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Tankerska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Teare, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Teekay Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 19Tenev, Jovi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Tokyo Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Tomasos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Tosi, Gloria Cataneo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Trachimowicz, Leszek . . . . . . . . . . . 6Transfennica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Transpetro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Twiss, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Ugland Nordic Shipping . . . . . . . . . 5Uljanik shipyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9V Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Vanguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Veitch, Colin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Viken Shipping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 11Wallenius Wilhelsen Lines . . . . . . . 28Watkins, Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24West, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Westfal-Larsen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Wilhelmsen family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Williams de Broe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Winchester Navigation . . . . . . . . . . 18Yang Ming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Yu Bao Shan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Yukos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Zela Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Zim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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If you know of a casualty, delay ordetention contact Off Course.Call Ian Cochran in London:Phone: +44 (0)207 842 2726Fax: +44 (0)207 842 2725email: ian.cochran@tw.nhst.no

AUSTRALIAAndhika Adhidaya Tanker - Singaporean - 87 - 4154 - 25May-Brisbane - NK - V Ships (Asia) -StructuralEco Charger Bulk carrier - Malaysian - 84 - 13852 -15 May- Bundaberg - NK - Ecoship -Life saving, fire fightingMineral Century Bulk carrier - Liberian - 95 - 81589 - 14May- Gladstone - LR - Tecto - FirefightingMing Courage Bulk carrier - Taiwanese - 84 - 36303 -31 May- Newcastle (NSW) - CR - Yang-ming - MarpolMSC Pamela Containership - Panamanian - 72 -50159 - 14 May- Fremantle - NK - MSC- StructuralOji Pioneer Bulk carrier - Liberian - 90 - 38833 - 9May - Geelong- NK - Kyokuto Shpg -MarpolPacific Spirit Tanker - Fiji - 85 - 4839 - 7 May - Bris-bane - NV- Dilmun Nav - STCW, lifesavingPacker Reefer - Liberian - 90 - 8945 - 13 May -Townsville - AB-Fleet Mngmt - Man-ningTai Ping Bulk carrier - Hong Kong - 97 - 16041 -3 May - Geelong-LR - Fenwick Shpg -Fire fightingWadi Haifa Bulk carrier - Egyptian - 85 - 22895 - 30

May - Port Hedland - LR - NationalNav - Life saving

Paris MOU Alexandros T Containership - Panamanian - 88 -7580 - 27 May - Hamburg - RM - EsscoSea - 39 defAnkas General cargo - St Vincent - 88 - 12215 -24 May - Antwerp - RM - Pakoil - 72 defCrown of Scandinavia Ropax - Danish - 94 - 35498 - 29 May -Oslo - NV - DFDS - 9 defDeneb Reefer Reefer - Panamanian - 74 - 9494 - 17May - St Petersburg - Cuban - AntarNico - 16 defFrance Containership - Dutch - 96 - 51931 - 20May - Naples - AB - P&O Nedlloyd - 9defMed General 5 General cargo - Cambodian - 76 -12628 - 17 May - Novorossisk - un-known - Ilias - 12 defNovigrad Bulk carrier - Croatian - 78 - 13656 - 25May - Amsterdam - BV - Tankerska -10 defOgrajden General cargo - Bulgarian - 67 - 5747 -17 May - Almeria - Bulgarian - Nav-ibulgare - 12 defPigassos Bulk carrier - Liberian - 78 - 10602 - 16May - Antwerp - LR - Seabirds - 33 defShoyna Bulk carrier - Maltese - 74 - 10133 - 15May - Setubal - RS - Lumar - 7 defSplendour of the Seas Cruise ship - Norwegian - 96 - 69130 - 9May - Naples - NV - RCCL - 2 defStripe Tanker - Norwegian - 74 - 20461 - 17May - Genoa - NV - Alendal - 25 defSunbird Cruise ship - Bahamian - 82 - 37773 -13 May - Naples - NV - Airtours - 2 def

Order of information in table:Name - type - flag - built - gt -date held- port held - class - owner/manager -defects

Veteran stopped in Black Sea hot spotANOTHER veteran believed tobe connected with Ilias Ship-ping was stopped in the BlackSea, a veritable black spot forold bulkers, tankers and gener-al cargoships.

The 21,000-dwt Cambodian-flag general cargoship MedGeneral V (built 1976) was re-leased at Novorossisk following10 days of detention on 17 May,reports the Paris MOU. It passedthrough the Bosporus five dayslater, bound for Gebze.

In February, it was held atVenice for 16 days.Althoughshown on the Equasis databaseas managed by a company call-ing itself Glyfada, it is stillthought to be connected withIlias Shipping, a company witha history of problems sur-rounding its rather elderlyfleet.

Essco Sea Carriers’ 430-teu

containership Alexandros T(built 1988) was released fromdetention at Hamburg after an11-day sojourn.

The 450,000-cbf veteranreefer Deneb Reefer (formerlyOceano Atlantico,built 1974)classed in Cuba, was releasedfrom St Petersburg on 17 Mayfollowing a 19-day detention.

One company regularly ap-pearing on port-state control(PSC) lists is Haugesund, Nor-way-based Alendal Rederi.

Alendal’s elderly 34,000-dwtchemical tanker Stripe (built1974) was released at Genoalast month after 43 days of de-tention.

PSC inspectors found 25 defi-ciencies before the ship was al-lowed to sail for India. Stripepassed through the Suez Canalon 23 May.

At Antwerp, a 24-year-old

bulker was released after 43days in the “sin bin” with 33 de-fects logged against it.The16,000-dwt Pigassos (built1978) was released on 16 Mayand sailed over a week later forLuanda.

Tankerska’s 22,700-bulkerNovigrad (built 1978) wasstopped at Rotterdam for 11days before sailing on 25 May.The Croatian vessel had alsoupset the inspectors at Chesa-peake (Virginia) in June 2001for 21 days.

An unusual entrant into thePSC bad books in May was P&ONedlloyd.The liner operator’s4,158-teu containership France(built 1996) was stuck at Naplesfor five days because, amongother things, it was was operat-ing in contravention of the SMSby lacking training and instruc-tion manuals.

Life-savingdeficienciesTWO LUXURY cruise vesselsand a modern ropax fell foul ofport-state control last month.Worryingly, both cruiseshipswere stopped with life-savingproblems.

Royal Caribbean’s 69,000-gtSplendour of the Seas (built1996) was held at Naples for aday as inspectors found faultswith its life-saving equipment.The ship is currently cruisingaround the western Mediter-ranean.

Also stopped at Naples for aday was Airtours’ 38,000-gtSunbird (built 1982).The Ital-ian authorities cited it too forproblems with its life-savinggear.

Non-closing watertight doorscaused a DFDS luxury ferry, the35,500-gt Crown of Scandi-navia (built 1994) to be haltedat Oslo. In Helsingborg it waslater given a clean bill of health.

Class acts onMSC boxship A 30-YEAR-OLD container-ship has had a condition ofclass slapped on it due tostructural defects.

Mediterranean Shipping’s1,838-teu MSC Pamela (built1972) was stopped by port-state control inspectors atFremantle last month with aholed hatch coaming andcover.A ClassNK surveyor at-tended the ship and moni-tored temporary repairs. Heissued a condition of class,stating that permanent re-pairs must be carried out by15 July. MSC Pamela joinedMSC’s fleet in 1996. It wasbuilt at Yokohama for NYK,entering service as the Ki-tano Maru, one of Japan’soriginal third-generationcontainerships.

Elsewhere,Yang Ming’s66,800-dwt panamax bulkerMing Courage (built 1984)was grabbed at Newcastle(NSW) while loading coal. In-spectors found Marpol-typeequipment problems, withoily-water separator, oil-con-tent meter and a non-func-tioning bilge pump.

Taiwan class society ChinaCorp Register of Shippingwas called and issued a tem-porary IOPP certificate de-manding the meter and sepa-rator be repaired when theship returns to Taiwan.

CLOSE THE DOORS: the “Crown of Scandinavia” Photo: DFDS

German ship hit by‘greens’ in Sweden

IAN COCHRANLondon

Two Greenpeace ac-tivists, members of agroup who tried to stopa ship in Sweden, arelanguishing in aSwedish jail.

MCA pelted in pollution report

ALL FOR THE CAUSE: Greenpeace activists being driven to jail in a police vehicle Photo: Scanpix

LAST ONE: cleaning up afterthe “Sea Empress” spill in 1996

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