SIRE Inspections on Oil Tankers

Abstract

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.

A bibliometric review on maritime inspection analysis: Current and future insights

“…The number of papers per year by the research fields. 68 , Fu et al 74 Mansell 2 , Perepelkin et al 76 , Liying 77 , Mansell 78 , Thurston and Lymbery 79 Silos et al 3 , Lin and Cheng 29 , Heij and Knapp 30 , Bijwaard and Knapp 80 , Boisson 81 Cebi et al 4 , Navas de Maya et al 28 , Grbic et al 82 , Ma 83 Dikis et al 64 , Xue and Tang 84 , Guoqiang and Yunqing 85 , Heij and Knapp 86 , Ishak et al 87 i. The datasets collected based on maritime inspection analysis do not have enough variable types and numbers.…”