During July, there were three new detentions of foreign flagged vessels in a UK port.

1. In response to one of the recommendations of Lord Donaldson’s inquiry into the prevention of pollution from merchant shipping, and in compliance with the EU Directive on Port State Control (2009/16/EC as amended), the Maritime and Coastguard agency (MCA) publishes details of the foreign flagged vessels detained in UK ports each month.

2. The UK is part of a regional agreement on port state control known as the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MOU) and information on all ships that are inspected is held centrally in an electronic database known as THETIS. This allows the ships with a high risk rating and poor detention records to be targeted for future inspection.

3. Inspections of foreign flagged ships in UK ports are undertaken by surveyors from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. When a ship is found to be not in compliance with applicable convention requirements, a deficiency may be raised. If any of their deficiencies are so serious they have to be rectified before departure, then the ship will be detained.

4. All deficiencies should be rectified before departure.

5. When applicable, the list includes those passenger craft prevented from operating under the provisions of the EU Directive on Mandatory Surveys for the safe operation of regular ro-ro ferry and high speed passenger craft services (1999/35/EU).

Notes on the list of detentions

• Full details of the ship. The accompanying detention list shows ship’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) number which is unchanging throughout the ship’s life and uniquely identifies it. It also shows the ship’s name and flag state at the time of its inspection.
• Company. The company shown in the vessel’s Safety Management Certificate (SMC) or if there is no SMC, then the party otherwise believed to be responsible for the safety of the ship at the time of inspection.
• Classification society. The list shows the classification society responsible for classing the ship only.
• Recognised organisation. Responsible for conducting the statutory surveys: and issuing statutory certificates on behalf of the flag state
• white (WL), grey (GL) and black lists (BL) are issued by the Paris MoU on 01 July each year and shows the performance of flag State. *Deficiencies The deficiencies listed are the ones which were detainable. Further details of other deficiencies can be provided on request.

SHIPS DETAINED IN JULY 2019

Vessel Name: THORNBURY

GT: 56115

IMO: 9226970

Flag: Bahamas (white list)

Company: Lundqvist Rederierna AB

Classification society: DNV GL

Recognised organisation: DNV GL

Recognised organisation for ISM Doc: DNV GL

Recognised organisation for ISM SMC: DNV GL

Date and place of detention: 2nd July 2019 at Newport

Summary: eight deficiencies with seven grounds for detention

Defective item	Nature of defect	Ground for detention
12107 – Fire protection cargo deck area	Leaking	Yes
07105 – Fire doors/openings in fire resisting divisions	Not as required	Yes
11117 – Lifebuoys incl. provision and disposition	Not ready for use	Yes
04109 – fire drills	Lack of training	Yes
10109 – Lights, shapes, sound-signals	Inoperative	Yes
18401 – Medical equipment, medical chest, medical guide	Expired	Yes
11124 – Embarkation arrangement survival craft	Not properly maintained	Yes

This vessel was released on 5th July 2019

Vessel Name: DOUWE- S

GT: 2862

IMO: 9467225

Flag: Netherlands (white list)

Company: Steenstra H

Classification society: Lloyds List

Recognised organisation: Lloyds List

Recognised organisation for ISM Doc: Lloyds List

Recognised organisation for ISM SMC: Lloyds List

Date and place of detention: 2nd July 2019 at Newport

Summary: twenty-eight deficiencies with two grounds for detention

Defective item	Nature of defect	Ground for detention
15150 – ISM	Not as required	Yes
11101 – Lifeboats	Inoperative	Yes

This vessel was still released on 6th July 2019

Vessel Name: MARIS

GT: 3999

IMO: 9122239

Flag: Germany (white list)

Company: USC Barnkrug GmbH & Co KG

Classification society: DNV GL

Recognised organisation: DNV GL

Recognised organisation for ISM Doc: DNV GL

Recognised organisation for ISM SMC: DNV GL

Date and place of detention: 15th July 2019 at Warrenpoint

Summary: six deficiencies with one ground for detention

Defective item	Nature of defect	Ground for detention
04102 – Emergency fire pump and its pipes	Inoperative	Yes

This vessel was released on 18th July 2019

DETENTIONS CARRIED OVER FROM PREVIOUS MONTHS

Vessel Name: KUZMA MININ

GT: 16257

IMO: 7721263

Flag: Russian Federation (Grey list)

Company: Murmansk Shipping Co

Classification society: RMRS

Recognised organisation: RMRS

Recognised organisation for ISM Doc: RMRS

Recognised organisation for ISM SMC: RMRS

Date and place of detention: 18th December 2018 at Falmouth

Summary: thirteen deficiencies with six grounds for detention

Defective item	Nature of defect	Ground for detention
01220 – Seafarers’ employment agreement (SEA)	Expired	Yes
18314 – Provisions quantity	Insufficient	Yes
01139 – Maritime Labour Certificate	Expired	Yes
01101 – Cargo Ship Safety Equipment (including exemption)	Survey out of window	Yes
10104 – Gyro compass	Inoperative	Yes
01104 – Cargo Ship Safety Radio 9 (including exemption)	Survey out of window	Yes

This vessel was still detained on 31st July 2019

Vessel Name: POSEIDON

GT: 1412

IMO: 7363217

Flag: Iceland (White list)

Company: Neptune EHF

Classification society: NA

Recognised organisation: NA

Recognised organisation for ISM Doc: DNV-GL

Recognised organisation for ISM SMC: DNV-GL

Date and place of detention: 19th July 2018 at Hull

Summary: ten deficiencies with two grounds for detention

Defective item	Nature of defect	Ground for detention
02106 – Hull damage impairing seaworthiness	Holed	Yes
07113 – Fire Pumps	Insufficient Pressure	Yes

This vessel was still detained on 31st July 2019

Vessel Name: TECOIL POLARIS

GT: 1814

IMO No: 8883290

Flag: Russian Federation (Grey list)

Company: Tecoil Shipping Ltd

Classification society: RMRS

Recognised organisation: RMRS

Recognised organisation for ISM DOC: RMRS

Recognised organisation for ISM SMC: RMRS

Date and place of detention: 6th June 2018 at Immingham

Summary: twenty-seven deficiencies with eight grounds for detentions

Defective item	Nature of defect	Ground for detention
10105 – Magnetic compass	Inoperative	Yes
10104 – Gyro compass	Inoperative	Yes
11129 – Operational readiness of lifesaving appliances	Not as required	Yes
10127 – Voyage or passage plan	Not as required	Yes
15150 – ISM	Not as required	Yes
11104 – Rescue boats	Not properly maintained	Yes
11101 – Lifeboats	Not ready for use	Yes
01117 – International Oil Pollution Prevention (IOPP)	Invalid	Yes

This vessel was still detained on 31st July 2019

Vessel Name: CIEN PORCIENTO (General Cargo)

GT: 106.

IMO No: 8944446.

Flag: Unregistered.

Company: Open Window Inc.

Classification society: Unclassed.

Recognised organisation: Not applicable.

Recognised organisation for ISM DOC: Not applicable.

Recognised organisation for ISM SMC: Not applicable

Date and place of detention: 4 March 2010, Lowestoft

Summary: thirty deficiencies including seven grounds for detention

This vessel was still detained on 31st July 2019

Notes to Editors • The MCA is a partner in the Sea Vision UK campaign to raise awareness and understanding of the sea and maritime activities. Sea Vision promotes the importance and economic value of the sector and works to highlight the exciting range of activities and career opportunities available to young people within the UK growing maritime sector.

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For further information please contact Maritime and Coastguard Agency Press Office, on: +44 (0) 2380 329 401 Press releases and further information about the agency is available here.

The British High Commission in Bangladesh, in collaboration with Civil Aviation Authority in Bangladesh, has placed digital messaging boards in the arrival areas of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka and International and Domestic arrivals at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet. HE Robert Chatterton Dickson, the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh, along with Group Captain Abu Sayeed Mehboob Khan, Airport Director of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, inaugurated the digital messaging boards.

These digital messaging boards in Dhaka and Sylhet international airports will display essential information on the UK’s Consular assistance for British nationals, emergency helpline 999, and useful advice for British nationals who are travelling to Bangladesh. While inaugurating the boards HE Robert Chatterton Dickson, the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh thanked the Civil Aviation Authority in Bangladesh for their cooperation.

The High Commissioner stated, “Over 100,000 British nationals travel to and from Bangladesh each year and most of the visits are trouble free.” He added, “Our Consular team provides assistance to British nationals in a wide range of issues, the level and type of assistance we offer is tailored to the individual circumstances of each case.” As an advice to the British nationals visiting Bangladesh, the High Commissioner stressed on having comprehensive travel insurance which will help pay for any medical emergency or additional flights if as a result their travel plans have to change.

The initiative of placing digital messaging board is a part of the British High Commission’s ongoing Consular assistance for British nationals. The assistance from Consular section includes providing emergency travel documents to British nationals in urgent need of travel and helping to contact friends and family in the UK, necessary support to the victims of forced marriages or any British national who got arrested or detained in Bangladesh, and supporting grieving families so that they can cope with a bereavement.

British nationals can visit https://www.gov.uk/world/bangladesh and sign up for the Bangladesh travel advice, guidance and tip.

Further information

Email: Dhaka.Press@fco.gov.uk

Follow the British High commissioner to Bangladesh on Twitter: @RCDicksonUK

Follow the British High commission Bangladesh on Twitter and Facebook: @UKinBangladesh and UK in Bangladesh

The Department for Education (DfE) today (08 August 2019) confirmed the annual updates to the Interest Rates and Thresholds of Income Contingent Student Loans and Mortgage Style Student Loans, as set out in the relevant regulations and terms and conditions of the loans.

Income Contingent Student Loans

Undergraduate loans

Income Contingent Student Loans for pre-2012 (Plan 1) loans

From 1 September 2019 until 31 August 2020, the maximum interest rate that can be set for the existing Income Contingent Repayment Loans will be 2.4%. However, the low interest cap will be triggered, and therefore the rate to be charged from 1 September 2019 will be 1.75%.

Please monitor this website regularly as the rates may change during the academic year.

From 6 April 2020, the repayment threshold for pre-2012 (Plan 1) loans will rise to £19,390.

Income Contingent Student Loans for post-2012 (Plan 2) loans

From 1 September 2019 until 31 August 2020, one or more interest rates may apply to you:

Your circumstances	Interest rate
Whilst studying and until the April after leaving the course	RPI + 3% (5.4%)
If you come into repayment from April 2020	Variable interest, dependent upon income RPI (2.4%), where income is £26,575 or less, rising on a sliding scale up to RPI + 3% (5.4%), where income is £47,835 or more
If you lose touch with SLC or do not send them the information they require	RPI + 3% (5.4%), irrespective of income, until SLC have the information they require

The repayment threshold for post-2012 (plan 2) loans will rise to £26,575 from 6 April 2020 to 5 April 2021.

Postgraduate Loans

From 1 September 2019 until 31 August 2020, the interest rate for borrowers in England taking out a Postgraduate Masters or a Doctoral loan will be 5.4% (RPI + 3%). The repayment threshold for Postgraduate loans continues to be £21,000.

Mortgage Style Loans

From 1 September 2019 until 31 August 2020, the interest rate for mortgage style loans will be 2.4%. The deferment threshold for mortgage style loans will be £32,347. Any queries from borrowers who have mortgage style loans should be addressed to their loan administrator.

The Queen is pleased to appoint Mrs Patricia Ann Sawers as Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Angus to succeed Mrs Georgiana Osborne, CVO who is due to retire on 24th August 2019.

Mrs Sawers was born in Carnoustie and raised on a local farm. She was educated at the High School of Dundee and Robert Gordons College Aberdeen.

Primarily her career was in Information Technology where she was project manager with Scottish Hydro Electric for fifteen years and a programme manager with Scottish Water for a decade. In 2014, she left full term employment to concentrate her energies on the role of Chair of Carnoustie Golf Links (CGL).

She joined CGL in November 2010, became Vice Chair in 2012 and the first female Chair in 2014. She helped to establish CGL as a Charitable Trust setting out a vision for the organisation to become world leading. Since becoming a Charity in 2014, the organisation has given £185,000 to 65 community groups and charities. It provides free junior golf to local schools and she was involved in the setup of Memories Golf, an organisation which helps comfort and support dementia sufferers.

Mrs Sawers has represented CGL on a number of business forums, including Tay Cities deal and local business groups. She was at the helm of the organisation while hosting a number of major golf events. During her tenure she has developed the participate in golf programme’, aimed at introducing women and families into golf.

Her most recent achievement was the hosting of The 147 th Open Championship, a worldwide sporting event viewed by a television audience of 600 million, bringing in an estimated £21 million to the local economy. In November 2018, she received the special recognition award for services to golf tourism.

Mrs Sawers is married to David, they have three sons and six grandchildren. Her date of birth is 2nd February 1958 and she is aged 61.

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