Port State Control Regions
Paris MOU (blue), Tokyo MOU (red),
Indian Ocean MOU (green), Mediterranean MOU (dark green), Acuerdo de Vina del Mar (yellow)[1], Caribbean MOU (olive), Abuja MOU,
ABUJA(dark red), Black Sea MOU (cyan) and Riyadh MOU (navy).
Regional Control provides fast and reliable communications between the States in the region, and between regions is imperative.
South Africa is signatory or member of the Indian Ocean Memorandum of Understanding(IOMoU) and the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control for West and Central African Region(Abuja MoU).
The IOMOU has the Indian Ocean Computerized information System (IOCIS), while others have their own and,
ABUJA MoU has the Abuja MoU Information System (AMIS)
Port State Inspection Fees and Penalties
South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA)
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The objective of the Authority is to carry out port state control to eliminate substandard ships from the region and threat they post to life, property and the marine environment.
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Under SAMSA’s eight different ports we have 28 Inspectors which are also flag state surveyors in those ports, performing duties on Maritime Safety.
Table 1 Fees and Penalties
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Type of Inspection
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Yes
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No
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If Yes, State Reasons
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Fees for Initial Inspection
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X
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Fees for Re-Inspection
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X
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Applied as a deterrent
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Is there national law/regulation on fees
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X
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DETERMINATION OF CHARGES, 2017
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Table 2 – 10-year summary of inspection, detentions and deficiency rate
NIR STATISTICS
Priority-wise PSC inspections carried out by South Africa from 01.01.2020 to 19.11.2020 w.r.t NIR implementation
Inspecting
Authority | No. of
Inspections (N) | Priority I (*) | Priority II | No Priority (NP) |
| | | Target
(70% of N) | Actual | %age target
achieved | Actual | Actual |
| South Africa (ZA) | 131 | 92 | 95 (73%) | 103.26 | 10 (8%) | 26 (20%) |
Note : NIR is implemented from 01.01.2019.
(*) Target for Priority I PSC inspections is 70% (IOCM22) w.r.t NIR implementation.
Summary of inspections for 2021
1. In 2021 SAMSA Surveyors carried out 147 initial port state control (PSC) inspections and recorded 122 deficiencies. They also carried out 33 Follow-up inspections.
2. Of the 147 ships inspected, 4 ships had deficiencies serious enough to warrant detention. The detention rate increased from 1,31 % in 2020 to 2.72% in 2021.
3. There is decrease in the number of deficiencies from 155 deficiencies in 2021 to 122 deficiencies in 2021
4. The deficiencies per inspection for the year 2021, number of inspections with deficiencies is 31 and a detention rate of 1.31.
| | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Total inspections | 234 | 230 | 222 | 284 | 310 | 282 | 217 | 317 | 353 | 359 | 153 | 147 |
| Total detentions | 13 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Detention % | 5.56 | 3.48 | 3.15 | 1.41 | 2.26 | 2.13 | 3.23 | 2.21 | 0.57 | 0.56 | 1.31 | 2.72 |
| Deficiencies per inspection | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 1.2
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