Open Journal of Social Sciences

Volume 8, Issue 8 (August 2020)

ISSN Print: 2327-5952   ISSN Online: 2327-5960

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The Effectiveness of New Inspection Regime on Port State Control Inspection

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DOI: 10.4236/jss.2020.88036    642 Downloads   2,386 Views  Citations
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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.

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Zheng, L. (2020) The Effectiveness of New Inspection Regime on Port State Control Inspection. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 8, 440-446. doi: 10.4236/jss.2020.88036.
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