TOKYO MOU SECRETARIAT EPRESS RELEASE

TOKYO MOU WILL INTRODUCE A NEW INSPECTION REGIME (NIR) FROM 1st JANUARY 2014

At the 23rd meeting of the Port State Control Committee in Singapore last month, the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Asia-Pacific Region (Tokyo MOU) decided to introduce a New Inspection Regime (NIR) for selection of ships from 1 January 2014. Bearing in mind the request by the Ministers at the 2nd Joint Ministerial Conference of the Paris and Tokyo Memoranda to harmonize PSC procedures to the highest level between the two regions, the Tokyo MOU NIR was developed by taking advantage of the one introduced in the Paris MOU a couple of years ago. Tokyo MOU will adopt related instruments in the next meeting held in October 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.

Under the NIR, ships would be identified into three categories (i.e. high risk ships-HRS, standard risk ships-SRS and low risk ships-LRS) based on ship risk profile, which will be calculated automatically in the PSC database system (APCIS). Under the NIR, different time windows/inspection intervals would be applied to the corresponding categories of ships in accordance with the risk levels so that high risk ships would be subject to more frequent inspections while the quality/low risk ships would be awarded with a wider time window for inspections.

Ship Risk Profile

The existing ship targeting factors will be replaced by the Ship Risk Profile. The Ship Risk Profile will be calculated based on the following elements and using historical data of inspections in the region during a 3-year period:

 -Performance of the flag of the ship (e.g. Black or White List of flags, status on completion of the Voluntary IMO Member State Audit Scheme (VIMSAS))

   -Type of ship

- Age of ship

 -Performance of the recognized organizations (RO)

- Performance of the company responsible for ISM management

 -Number of deficiencies

 -Number of detentions

Time Window and Selection Scheme

The following time windows are assigned to ships based on the risk levels:

 Ship Risk Profile                  Time Window since previous inspection

Low Risk Ships                               9 to 18 months

Standard Risk Ships                           5 to 8 months

High Risk Ships                               2 to 4 months

The cycle of time window will be re-started for the ship after an inspection.

There are two categories of priority for inspections, which are defined in accordance with the following criteria:

 Priority I: The ship should be inspected, time window for which has been closed.

Priority II: The ship could be inspected, which is within the time window.

Should any overriding factors (e.g. under-performing ship) be identified, the ship would have overriding priority rather than above NIR for inspection.

15 February 2013

（船舶管理部  傅恒星供稿）

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TOKYO MOU将自2014年1月1日起引入一种新的检查机制（NIR）

元月份，在新加坡举行的第23届PSC委员会上，亚太地区备忘录组织（Tokyo MOU）决定自2014年1月1日起，引入一种新的检查体制（NIR），记得在第2次TOKYO MOU和PARIS MOU两个代表最高检查水平的备忘录组织部长级联席会上部长们的要求，他们来协调2个备忘录组织的PSC检查程序至最高水准，TOKYO MOU引入的新检查体制（NIR），一种由PARIS MOU在几年前所采用并发展而来。TOKYO MOU决定将于2013年10月，在日本东京举行的下一次会议上宣布采用类似的选船方式。

在新的检查机制下，船舶将根据风险状况被细分为3类（即，高风险船-HRS，正常风险船舶-SRS和低标准船-LRS），风险状况评分基于PSC数据库（APCIS）自动计算。在新检查机制下，不同风险等级的船舶相应的检查时间窗口/间隔不同，高风险船将不得不接受更频繁的检查，低风险船的检查间隔将被容许延长更长的时间间隔。

船舶风险数据

现有的船舶的目标因素/选船方法将被船舶风险情况的数据取代，船舶风险指数的计算将结合船舶3年来在该备忘录组织所属区域内的检查历史数据和下列各因素综合考虑：

-船旗国的表现（如黑名单或白名单船旗，在IMO成员自愿审核方案中完成情况VIMSAS）

-船型

-船龄

-认可组织（船级社）的表现

-船公司ISM管理运行情况

-缺陷数

-滞留次数

时间窗口和选船方案

基于风险等级相应的时间窗口：

船舶风险状况                         自上次检查的时间窗口

Low Risk Ships                        9 to 18 months

Standard Risk Ships                    5 to 8 months

High Risk Ships                        2 to 4 months

船舶接受检查后，窗口重新循环。

根据下述标准，有两类船舶将被优先检查：

优先I：超出检查时间窗口的船舶应被优先检查；

优先II：在窗口内的船舶，可以进行检查；

任何时候，一旦超过该轮原风险等级的因素被（如表现不佳的船舶）认同，该轮应优先于原检查机制所定的时间窗口接受检查。