Shipping: Inspections
(asked on 3rd July 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has made on inspecting (a) Priority I high risk, (b) Priority I non-high-risk and (c) Priority I international shipping calling at UK ports and anchorages in the last 12 months.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) monitors the inspection of foreign flag ships in UK and Gibraltar ports and anchorages under the Port State Control regime.
The target for this is set on a calendar year basis. The number of inspections for 2017 and 2018, to date are shown below.
| 2017 | 2018 (to date 04/07/2018) |
Priority I high risk | 18 | 12 |
Priority I non-high-risk | 885 | 438 |
Priority II | 409 | 317 |
Total | 1312 | 767 |
Target | 1419 | 1590 |
The MCA is slightly behind the half year target of 795 but is confident that they will make up the deficit by the end of 2018.