Oil tanker inspections have an important role in enhancing safety and minimizing the risk of oil pollution. However, research has indicated that inspection items are overlapping among inspection regimes observed in a given time span on board oil tankers, thus making negative impact on ship safety, unnecessarily consuming shipboard human resources and having adverse economic effects. In this paper, current inspections performed on board oil tankers have been presented, including duration, intensity and average costs, directly or indirectly paid by shipowners. Our analysis of surveyed components by all regimes has showed that it is possible to reduce critical inspection parameters without compromising safety by introducing a unified inspection method. A content of such inspection, consisting of 529 components, has been presented. Performing the proposed inspection method and sharing its results among interested parties of oil tanker safety regime has been suggested as a measure that could improve oil tanker safety and pollution prevention.
Ship Inspection Report Programme (SIRE) addresses concerns about substandard shipping in oil industry. As a part of the risk assessment physical inspection of the oil tanker is performed by accredited SIRE inspector and resulting report is available to charterers, ship operators, terminal operators and government bodies. In this article SIRE inspection is described and compared with other non-mandatory and mandatory inspections on oil tankers. Some potential consequences of tanker over-inspections are discussed.
Inspections on board tankers contribute to the prevention of accidents,
which can have a significant impact to humans and environment. Therefore a high amount of tanker
inspections is performed by various stakeholders. This practice could be made more efficient by
introducing unified inspection regime, which covers existing areas of inspection, eliminates
overlapping and has the potential to improve safety. In this paper an important aspect in defining
inspection regime, inspection interval, is determined considering contradictory goals: lowering
the costs of inspection and increasing useful service life of tanker structure and equipment,
without compromising safety. A probabilistic approach has been applied to establish inspection
schedule, which fulfils a range of requirements. Due to the many varieties of tanker types,
their conditions, range of size and age span, the paper focuses on the 10 years AFRAMAX tanker.
Results indicate that optimal inspection interval in the unified inspection regime for that
tanker should be 3 months. Using modified input parameters, similar approach could be used for
other tanker types.
This paper analyses the inspections of Ro-Ro ships operating on the Motorways of the Sea routes. The analysis aims to determine the level of safety standards on ships operating on the Motorways of the Sea routes. In addition, it examines results of the inspections of various types of ships within the "Paris Memorandum" regime. The paper describes inspection procedures and the parameters that indicate the level of safety and quality of the ship through indirect and direct indicators. Regarding direct indicators, ships were analysed by their age, ship's flag and performance of the recognized organization. Regarding indirect safety indicators, an analysis of detentions and deficiencies found during ship inspections was carried out.
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