§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by classification society the number of ships detained by the Marine Safety Agency in the last two years.
§ Mr. NorrisThis is an operational matter for the Marine Safety Agency. I have asked the chief executive to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from R. M. Bradley to Ms Joan Walley, dated 14 March 1995:
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your Question about the number of ships, by classification society, detained by the Marine Safety Agency in the last two years; I attach two tables. The first table gives the number of detentions following port state control inspections in UK ports for 1994. This includes a detention rate based on the total number of inspections carried out on ships classed with the classification society. Equivalent figures for 1993 are not available without undue expenditure but the number of detentions without the amplifying detention rates are listed in the second table.The figures must be treated with some care as ships may be detained for items which are not the responsibility of a classification society. Also some fish factory ships, klondykers, although in a detainable condition could not be detained because the ships were anchored outside the port when inspected. In a small percentage of cases the classification society has not been recorded because it did not issue the certificates.
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Port state control detentions by the marine safety agency listed by classification society Classification Society Number of detentions in 1994 Percentage detained HINSIB (Honduras) 1 50 Turku Lloyd Vakfi 1 50 Hellenic Register 12 40 Bulgarian Register 7 35 Romanian Register 3 25 China Corporation Register of Shipping 1 25 RINAVE (Portugal) 1 20 American Bureau of Shipping 20 18 Croatian Register 1 14 RINA (Italy) 6 14
Port state control detentions by the marine safety agency listed by classification society Classification Society Number of detentions in 1994 Percentage detained Nippon Kaiji Kyokai 13 14 Russian Register 43 13 Bureau Veritas 35 13 Register of Shipping of People's Republic of China 1 12 Indian Register 1 11 Lloyd's Register 26 7 Germanischer Lloyd 24 7 Det Norske Veritas 16 6 Polish Register 1 4 Un-classed or class unknown 12
Port state control detentions by the marine safety agency in 1993 listed by classification society Classification society Number of detentions in 1993 Bureau Veritas 34 Lloyd's Register 26 Germanischer Lloyd 24 Russian Register 19 American Bureau of Shipping 17 Nippon Kaiji Kyokai 12 Hellenic Register 11 Det Norske Veritas 10 HINSIB (Honduras) 5 Romanian Register 3 Panama Bureau of Shipping 2 RINA (Italy) 2 Indian Register 1 Un-classed or class unknown 8