Portugal rose 4 locations on the checklist of high quality flags (White Record) of the Paris MT, recovering the twenty second place within the rating dominated by Denmark.
The Paris MT Committee has authorized the efficiency lists of the Ship Registration Flags for 2023 which will probably be in pressure from 1 July subsequent. Portugal regained the 4 locations it misplaced final 12 months and took twenty second place on the White Record, amongst 42 flags.
Ship Registration Flags are scaled in response to the variety of inspections and arrests made within the final three years on flags with no less than 30 registered inspections in that interval. This ends in the White, Grey and Black lists, which this time embrace 42, 17 and 12 flags, respectively.
Within the case of Portugal, and in response to knowledge launched yesterday by the Paris MoU, within the final three years ships with the Portuguese flag had been topic to 1,775 inspections by the Port State Management in international locations that adhere to the “Paris MoU”, and as this resulted in 52 arrests.
The White Record, which brings collectively the highest quality flags, is led by Denmark, adopted by the Netherlands and Norway.
It was in 2016 that Portugal returned to the Paris MT White Record. Within the following two years he was thirtieth, after which he rose to twenty seventh, twenty sixth, twenty fourth and twenty second. Final 12 months (in evaluation relative to 2022) it fell 4 positions, which it has now recovered.
Additionally yesterday, the efficiency checklist of Acknowledged Organizations (RO), that’s, entities licensed to behave on behalf of flag states, was printed. On this case, it’s price highlighting the truth that the primary eight positions are held by the eight ROS which have signed a protocol with the DGRM.