We are pleased to present the Annual Report on Port State Control in the Mediterranean region for year 2023, which published under the auspices of the Port State Control Committee of the Mediterranean MoU.
Ten members states of the memorandum have carried out 5,976 inspections on 5,023 individual ships and the number of detentions increased by 18% to record 157 detentions in 2023 .
50% of the inspections (2,997 inspections) recorded with deficiencies, the total number of detainable deficiencies recorded was 1,034 deficiencies, 15% of those deficiencies were Ro related .
The 25th annual Port State Control Committee meeting of the Med MoU was held in Alexandria, Egypt from 17th – 19th October 2023, the meeting witnessed the signature of association by Croatia as a new member to the Med MoU starting from 1st of January 2024. On behalf of Med MoU and all the member states, we would like to extend our warmest welcome to the Republic of Croatia as the eleventh member state to the Med MoU.
The Mediterranean MoU participated to the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) from the 1st of September to the 30th of November 2023 on Fire Safety, which jointly prepared by the Paris MoU and the Tokyo MoU. The CIC topic related detention rate was 1.3% which could be considered a satisfactory result the most unfavorable results recorded was on the fire doors, and the favorable results recorded was on the fire drill .
This annual report highlights the developments and activities of the Med MOU in 2023. Moreover, the report also provides port State control statistics and analysis on the results of inspections in 2023.
We would like to thank (Israel, Jordan, Malta, and Türkiye) members of the Management Advisory Board who continued to serve the Med MoU throughout 2023 and all the Member States of the Med MoU for their support during the year and we would like specially to thank all the Med MoU Port State Control Officers and their Administrations.
We would like also, to praise the prominent role by EMSA as the manager of THETIS-Med, and the implementing body of SAFEMED project.