TITLE:
The Effectiveness of New Inspection Regime on Port State Control Inspection
AUTHORS:
Lan Zheng
KEYWORDS:
Port State Control, New Inspection Regime, Effectiveness, Maritime Safety
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.8,
August
28,
2020
ABSTRACT: Port state control (PSC) inspection is an important measure to improve
ship safety and reduce ship accident rate. To improve the effectiveness of PSC
inspections, some MoUs have begun to
implement new inspection regime (NIR). However, the effectiveness of NIR
remains to be studied. Then this study aims to verify the effectiveness of NIR
and improve shipping safety. In this study, Bayesian Network model is used to
establish the relationship between NIR, ship deficiencies, detention and ship
accident to explore the impact of NIR on maritime safety. The data in this
study are from PSC inspection data in the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
and accident data in the International Maritime Organization (IMO). By analyzing
the changes of the number of ship deficiency, detention rate and accident rate
before and after NIR implementation, the
effectiveness of NIR can be verified. The results show that the implementation
of NIR does not effectively reduce the number of substandard ships, but the
number of ships with serious deficiencies is significantly reduced. However,
ship accident rate has not declined. Therefore, it is believed that Tokyo MoU
needs to further improve the effectiveness of NIR and strengthen supervision of
defective ships.