Paris MOU: Ships' fire safety still a serious concern

FEBRUARY 26, 2013 — "Fire safety is clearly not top priority on every ship and that is a serious concern," says Richard Schiferli (left), Secretary General of the Paris MoU on port state control.

The Paris MOU Secretariat has just released preliminary results from a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Fire Safety Systems, carried out between September 1, 2012 and November 30, 2012 in the Paris MoU region.

103 ships were detained over the 3 month period as a direct result of the CIC for deficiencies related to fire safety systems

64 percent of all ships detained in the three month period were detained for fire safety related issues.

Problem areas included fire pumps and their pipes, fire fighting equipment and appliances, and the fire control plan.

The CIC questionnaire was completed during 4,014 inspections on 3,985 individual ships. A total of 1,958 CIC-related deficiencies were recorded and 103 ships (2.6 percent) were detained as a direct result of the CIC; 64 percent of the detentions during the CIC-period were fire safety system related.

During the campaign most inspections concerned general cargo/multi-purpose ships with 1,347 (34 percent) inspections, followed by bulk carriers with 766 (19 percent) inspections, container ships with 422 (11 percent) inspections, chemical tankers with 343 (9 percent) inspections and oil tankers with 308 (8 percent) inspections.

Fifty nine (57 percent) of the detained ships were general cargo/multipurpose ships and 14 (14 percent) were bulk carriers. Among the other detained ships were nine container ships, four offshore supply ships and four RO/RO cargo ships. Fifty one percent of the detained ships were 25 years or older.

Analysis of the recorded deficiencies shows that most deficiencies relate to fire pumps and its pipes (13 percent), fire fighting equipment and appliances (11 percent), and the fire control plan (9 percent).

Most inspections were carried out on ships under the flags of Panama with 445 (11 percent) inspections, Liberia with 308 (8 percent) inspections, Malta with 306 (8 percent) inspections and Antigua and Barbuda with 282 (7 percent) inspections. The flags with the highest CIC-topic related detention rate were Dominica with 28,6 percent (2 CIC-topic related detentions during 7 inspections), Sierra Leone with 21,2 percent (7 CIC-topic related detentions during 33 inspections) and Togo with 18,2 percent (4 CIC-topic related detentions during 22 inspections).

The background for this CIC was that, as an average for the last 8 years, deficiencies related to fire safety systems account for 14 percent of the total number of deficiencies within the Paris and Tokyo MoU. The CIC was a joint campaign with the Tokyo MoU. Other MOU's have followed the same routine during the campaign.

The detailed results of the campaign will be further analyzed and findings will be presented to the 46th meeting of the Port State Control Committee in May 2013, after which the report will be submitted to IMO

（译文参考：船舶管理部 傅恒星编译）

巴黎备忘录：船舶消防安全问题依旧严重

26 Feb. 2013 PARIS MOU组织港口国监督秘书长Richard Schiferli说，“很显然，（CIC检查窗口已过）消防安全方面已经不再是每条船舶优先考虑范畴，这是一个非常严重的问题”

PARIS MOU秘书处公布了本组织从2012年9月1日至2012年12月31日，实施消防安全集中大检查（CIC）期间的初步统计结果。

为期3个月的消防安全集中大检查中（CIC）有103艘次船舶直接因为消防安全相关缺陷被滞留；

3个月内，被滞留的船舶中约64%与消防安全缺陷有关；

问题涉及消防泵及管线，消防装备和用品，以及防火控制计划。

3个月里，总计在涉及3980艘船上进行的4014艘次的CIC（消防集中大检查）的调查表已完成，累计1958条与CIC相关的缺陷被记录，103艘次船舶直接因消防安全相关缺陷被滞留（占检查总数2.6%）。CIC期间滞留的船舶，其中64%滞留原因与消防安全系统缺陷有关。

在集中大检查期间，接受检查最多的是多用途船，累计1347艘次（占34%）随后依次是散货船766艘次（占19%），集装箱船422艘次（占11%），化学品船343艘次（占9%）和油轮308艘次（占8%）。

滞留船舶中有59艘次（占57%）是多用途船，14艘次（占14%）散货船，其他滞留船舶中有9艘次集装箱船，4艘次平台供应船，4艘次RO/RO船。滞留船舶中约51%是25年及以上老旧船。

分析滞留缺陷记录显示，多数缺陷与消防泵和其管系相关（13%），消防装备和用品（11%），和消防控制计划（9%）相关。

被检查的船舶中，巴拿马船旗最多445艘次（11%），利比里亚船旗308艘次（占8%），马耳他旗306艘次（占8%），安提瓜.巴布达旗282艘次。此次消防安全集中大检查中（CIC topic），滞留率最高的是多米尼加旗船舶，检查的7艘次船舶中有2艘次被滞留，占28.6%。塞拉利昂旗21.2%滞留率（33艘次接受检查，7艘次因消防相关缺陷被滞留），多哥占18.2%（检查的22艘次船舶中，有4艘次因消防安全相关缺陷被滞留）。

开展消防安全集中大检查（CIC）的背景是，过去的8年里，在PARIS MOU和TOKYO MOU滞留的船舶中缺陷中，消防安全相关缺陷占平均占缺陷总数的14%，消防安全集中大检查由PARIS MOU和TOKYO MOU联手开展，其他备忘录组织随后也纷纷加入该项集中大检查运动。

活动的详细结果将被进一步分析，调查报告将在5月份举行的第46届PSC委员会上发布并递交给IMO。