The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has announced that five foreign ships were under detention in UK ports during March 2008 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.
Latest monthly figures show that there were five detentions of foreign flagged ships in UK ports during March 2008 and two vessels under detention from previous months. The overall rate of detentions compared with inspections carried out over the last 12 months was 5.1% - a slight decrease on February's 12 month rate.
During the month of March, 120 Port State Control inspections were carried out in the UK. A total of 28 vessels had no deficiencies raised against them, 51 had between one and five deficiencies, 29 had between six and 10 deficiencies, 11 had between 11 and 20 deficiencies and there was one vessel inspected that had more than 20 deficiencies.
Out of the detained vessels, five were registered with flag states listed on the Paris MOU white list, one was registered with a flag state on the grey list and one was not listed.
