The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that Four foreign flagged ships remained under detention in UK ports during December 2018 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection.
During December, there were four new detentions of foreign flagged vessels in a UK port.
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.
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.
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.
All deficiencies should be rectified before departure.
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
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 in Falmouth
Summary: Thirteen deficiencies with six grounds for detention
| Defective item | Nature of defect | Ground for Detention |
| 18401 – Medical equipment, medical chest, medical guide | Expired | No |
| 11108 – Inflatable liferafts | Expired | No |
| 01220 – Seafarers’ employment agreement (SEA) | Expired | Yes |
| 18314 – Provisions quantity | Insufficient | Yes |
| 11128 – Line – throwing appliance | Expired | No |
| 11101 – Lifeboats | Damaged | No |
| 01139 – Maritime Labour Certificate | Expired | Yes |
| 02202 – Cargo ship safety equipment (Including exemption) | Survey put of window | Yes |
| 10104 – Gyro compass | Inoperative | Yes |
| 07115 – Fire – Dampers | Not as required | No |
| 11117 – Lifebuoys incl. provisions and disposition | Not as required | No |
| 01104 – Cargo ship safety radio 9 (including exemption) | Survey out of window | Yes |
| 04103 – Emergency, lighting, batteries and switches | Not properly maintained | No |
This vessel was still detained on 31st December 2018
GT: 3170
IMO: 9194062
Flag: Russian Federation (Grey list)
Company: Transflot Ltd
Classification Society: BV
Recognised Organisation: BV
Recognised Organisation for ISM Doc: RMRS
Recognised Organisation for ISM SMC: RMRS
Date and Place of Detention: 14th December 2018 at Newport
Summary: Six deficiencies with Six grounds for detention
| Defective item | Nature of defect | Ground for Detention |
| 07111 – Personal equipment for fire safety | Not properly maintained | Yes |
| 15150 – ISM | Not as required | Yes |
| 11131 – Onboard training and instructions | Lack of training | Yes |
| 05116 – Operations/maintenance | Not as required | Yes |
| 10114 – Voyage data recorder (VDR) / Simplified voyage data recorder (5-VDR) | Not as required | Yes |
| 05115 – Radio log (diary) | Not as required | Yes |
This vessel was released on 20th December 2018
GT: 6714
IMO: 9204702
Flag: Netherlands (White list)
Company: Spliethoff’s Bevrachtings BV
Classification Society: BV
Recognised Organisation: BV
Recognised Organisation for ISM Doc: LR
Recognised Organisation for ISM SMC: LR
Date and Place of Detention: 12th December 2018 at Tyne
Summary: Twelve deficiencies with threee grounds for detention
| Defective item | Nature of defect | Ground for Detention |
| 10101 – Pilot ladders and hoist/pilot transfer arrangements | Unsafe | No |
| 07105 – Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions | Not as required | Yes |
| 07105 – Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions | Not as required | Yes |
| 11117 – Lifebuoys incl. provisions and disposition | Not as required | No |
| 02106 – Hull damage impairing seaworthiness | Holed | No |
| 15150 – ISM | Not as required | Yes |
| 03104 – Cargo & other hatchways | Damaged | No |
| 09233 – Guards – fencing around dangerous machinery parts | Not as required | No |
| 07120 – Means of escape | Blocked | No |
| 10109 – Lights, shapes, sound – signals | Missing | No |
| 99101 – Other safety in general | Other | No |
| 03108 – Ventilators, air pipes, casings | Corroded | No |
This vessel was released on 20th December 2018
GT: 6714
IMO: 7382627
Flag: Norway (White list)
Company: Myklebusthaug Management AS
Classification Society: N/A
Recognised Organisation: BV
Recognised Organisation for ISM Doc: Flag
Recognised Organisation for ISM SMC: Flag
Date and Place of Detention: 12th December 2018 at Grimsby
Summary: Eight deficiencies with three grounds for detention
| Defective item | Nature of defect | Ground for Detention |
| 01220 – Seafarers’ employment agreement (SEA) | Not as required | No |
| 10109 – Lights, shapes, sound – signals | Missing | No |
| 05105 – MF/HF Radio installation | Inoperative | Yes |
| 15150 – ISM | Not as required | Yes |
| 03102 – Freeboard marks | Not as required | No |
| 01201 – Certificate for master and officers | Expired | Yes |
| 09232 – Cleanliness of engine room | Insufficient | No |
| 01209 – Manning specified by the minimum safe manning doc | Not as required | No |
This vessel was released on 15th December 2018
GT: 11743
IMO: 9353022
Flag: Panama (White list)
Company: Oras Denizcilik ve Ticaret Ltd
Classification Society: BV
Recognised Organisation: BV
Recognised Organisation for ISM Doc: N/A
Recognised Organisation for ISM SMC: N/A
Date and Place of Detention: 19th November 2018 at Southampton
Summary: Seventeen deficiencies with six grounds for detention
| Defective item | Nature of defect | Ground for Detention |
| 18313 – Cleanliness | Dirty | Yes |
| 07116 – Ventilation | Not as required | No |
| 18314 – Provisions quantity | Insufficient | Yes |
| 07199 – Other (fire safety) | Other | No |
| 02105 – Steering gear | Inoperative | No |
| 13103 – Gauges, thermometers, etc | Not as required | No |
| 15150 – ISM | Not as required | No |
| 10111 – Charts | Missing | No |
| 01324 – Material Safety Data sheets (MSDS) | Missing | No |
| 18318 – Food temperature | Not as required | Yes |
| 18424 – Steam pipes, pressure pipes, wires (insulation) | Not as required | Yes |
| 08199 – Other (alarms) | Other | No |
| 18408 – Electrical | Unsafe | Yes |
| 18499 – Other (Health protection, medical care) | Other | No |
| 10116 – Nautical publications | Missing | No |
| 03106 – Windows, sidescuttles and deadlights | Not as required | No |
| 01140 – Declaration of Maritime Labour Compliance (Part I and II) | Missing | Yes |
This vessel was still detained on 31st December 2018
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 |
| 01199 – Other certificates | Other | No |
| 01218 – Medical | Incorrect language | No |
| 02106 – Hull damage impairing seaworthiness | Holed | Yes |
| 07113 – Fire Pumps | Insufficient Pressure | Yes |
| 07103 – Divisions – Decks, bulkheads and penetrations | Not as required | No |
| 12107 – Ballast, fuel and other tanks | Not as required | No |
| 07105 – Fire doors/openings in fire resisting divisions | Not as required | No |
| 01101 – Cargo Ship Safety Equipment (including exemption) | Missing | No |
| 01102 – Cargo Ship Safety Construction (including exemption) | Missing | No |
| 01104 – Cargo Ship Safety Radio (including exemption) | Missing | No |
This vessel was still detained on 31st December 2018
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 |
| 01123 – Continuous synopsis record | Entries missing | No |
| 01218 – Medical certificate | Missing | No |
| 01320 – Garbage record book | Incorrect | No |
| 01308 – Record of seafarers’ daily hours of work or rest | False | No |
| 04110 – Abandon ship drill | Insufficient frequency | No |
| 10105 – Magnetic compass | Inoperative | Yes |
| 10128 – Navigation bridge visibility | Not as required | No |
| 10104 – Gyro compass | Inoperative | Yes |
| 11122 – Radio life-saving appliances | Inoperative | No |
| 11129 – Operational readiness of lifesaving appliances | Not as required | Yes |
| 04109 – Fire drills | Lack of communication | No |
| 10127 – Voyage or passage plan | Not as required | Yes |
| 10123 – International code of signals – SOLAS | Missing | No |
| 15150 – ISM | Not as required | Yes |
| 05110 – Facilities for reception of marine safety inform. | Not as required | No |
| 05199 – Other (radiocommunication) | Other | No |
| 11104 – Rescue boats | Not properly maintained | Yes |
| 11101 – Lifeboats | Not ready for use | Yes |
| 10101 – Pilot ladder and hoist/pilot transfer arrangements | Unsafe | No |
| 06105 – Atmosphere testing instrument | Not properly maintained | No |
| 07105 – Fire doors/openings in fire resisting divisions | Not as required | No |
| 01117 – International Oil Pollution Prevention (IOPP) | Invalid | Yes |
| 14604 – Bunker delivery note | Not as required | No |
| 01315 – Oil record book | Not properly filled | No |
| 02105 – Steering gear | Not properly maintained | No |
| 02108 – Electrical installations in general | Not properly maintained | No |
| 11134 – Operations of life saving appliances | Lack of familiarity | No |
This vessel was still detained on 31st December 2018
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
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Minister for School Standards Nick Gibb hosted the first International Textbook Summit in London on Thursday 14 June, bringing together curriculum experts and teachers to discuss how to use textbooks to improve education for every child and help tackle teacher workload.
The Minister welcomed government representatives and international experts from 15 nations including Finland, Singapore and Germany to the Royal Society in London to share the latest international evidence on textbooks and explore ways of emulating the success of textbook based teaching programmes, such as Teaching for Mastery.
Evidence suggests textbooks save teachers around 18 minutes a day and high performing countries, including those in the Far East, have a strong focus on textbooks to help raise education standards.
The international symposium builds on the recent launch of a £7.7 million curriculum fund to support the development of high quality resources. These resources will also help teachers deliver the government’s new curriculum while freeing them up to focus on what really matters in the classroom.
School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said:
Textbooks support teachers to translate the vision of a curriculum into carefully sequenced and well-resourced lessons, reducing teacher workload and increasing the quality of classroom teaching. That’s why we are encouraging the creation of these resources through our £7.7 million curriculum fund.
It was an honour to host world-leading experts for this first ever summit and to discuss how we can use these resources to improve education for every child, building on the 1.9 million more children now in good or outstanding schools than in 2010 thanks to the hard work of teachers and our reforms.
Tim Oates CBE from Cambridge Assessment said:
The Summit developed an extraordinary consensus about the value and function of textbooks; the discussion of what ‘quality’ means will help with both new generations of textbooks and allied digital resources.
The evidence of best practice and the discussions at the summit will help to shape the development of resources as part of the curriculum fund. It will also inform the development of the department’s teacher recruitment and retention strategy which is due to be published later this year.
The Education Secretary has been clear that there are no great schools without great teachers and his top priority is to make sure teaching remains an attractive and fulfilling profession – removing unnecessary workload is at the heart of this commitment.
Also speaking at the event were: Tim Oates CBE, Cambridge Assessment; Professor Bill Schmidt, Michigan State University; Professor Dr Eckhardt Fuchs, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research; Lee Fei Chen, Times Publishing Limited; Rickard Vinde, Swedish Association of Educational Publishers; Dr Nuno Crato, University of Lisbon; Debbie Morgan, National Centre for the Excellence in Teaching Mathematics; and Professor Xingfeng Huang, Shanghai Normal University.
Read Nick Gibb’s full speech here.
The smuggling attempt was uncovered by Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport on 26 June 2018 when officers stopped Jeffrey Lendrum after he arrived on a flight from Johannesburg.
Lendrum, 57 and of no fixed UK address, was wearing a heavy jacket which officers thought was unusual due to the very warm weather conditions. When asked whether he had anything to declare, Lendrum stated he had some Fish Eagle and Kestrel eggs strapped to his body. During a full search, he was found to be wearing a body belt concealing 19 bird eggs as well as 2 newly-hatched chicks.
Border Force specialist officers identified that the eggs were protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the import trade for which is controlled by the issue of permits. Officers ensured that both the eggs and the live chicks were kept warm and quickly transported to the Heathrow Animal Reception Centre, managed by the City of London Corporation. The live chicks and the eggs were later moved to a specialist care facility at the International Centre for Birds of Prey.
Lendrum was arrested and the investigation passed to the National Crime Agency (NCA). Lendrum stated during an interview that his intention was to rescue the eggs after he encountered some men chopping down trees containing their nests. However in court, experts stated that a number of the eggs were from birds that nest in cliffs. Their values on the black market ranged from £2,000 to £8,000.
At Snaresbrook Crown Court on Tuesday (8 January) Lendrum, who has previous convictions for similar CITES offences in Canada, Brazil and Africa, pleaded guilty to attempting to import the 19 bird eggs.
Grant Miller, head of the national Border Force CITES team at Heathrow, said:
My officers are experts in their field and, in this case, their vigilance has stopped a prolific wildlife criminal in his tracks. Their intervention also ensured that the birds and eggs received the immediate care and attention that they needed.
Wildlife crime is a global issue and Border Force officers play a crucial role in preventing offenders from moving the products across borders, stripping them of their illegal profits.
We will continue to work closely with enforcement partners such as the NCA to tackle the international illegal wildlife trade which threatens the survival of endangered animals and plants.
Chris Hill, NCA investigations manager Heathrow, said:
This offence was clearly no accident as Lendrum had gone to great lengths to both source and then attempt to conceal the birds eggs. His claims that he was engaged in an effort to save them from deforestation did not hold water.
Wildlife crime is a cynical business, indulged in by those who have no qualms about the environmental damage they cause as long as there is a profit to be made. This case sends a clear message that we are determined to bring cases like this before the courts
The importation of endangered species into the UK is strictly controlled by CITES, which is an international agreement covering more than 35,000 species of animals and plants. The Heathrow-based Border Force CITES team are specialist officers who work across the UK and who are recognised as world leaders in their field.
Anyone with information about activity they suspect may be linked to smuggling and trafficking of any kind should call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
I am delighted to be here at Unit 6, a showcase of the UK’s world leading contemporary art. Contemporary art is at the cutting edge. Its practitioners are always innovating and engaging people in new ways. So it is fitting that we’re here today to launch the ‘Audience of the Future’ demonstrators, which will be doing the same.
Imagine being inside the world of a Shakespeare play, or in a video game as professional players battle it out for millions of dollars, or immersed in a national museum, solving a detective narrative involving dinosaurs and robots with fellow virtual museum-goers.
These are only some of the experiences that will be afforded to everyone by immersive technology. The number of possibilities is only set to grow with the rate of technological change and our creative expertise.
It is estimated that by 2023 the global immersive technology market will be worth between $95 billion and $105 billion. In the UK, we have around 1,000 companies specialising in immersive, generating £660 million in sales. I have a feeling these predictions will turn out to be underestimates.
With our world-class creative businesses, researchers and technologists, and our expertise in arts, design, and computer science, Government has seen the opportunity for the UK to establish itself as the world’s most innovative economy.
The Industrial Strategy includes a range of measures to improve our ability to turn new ideas into commercial products – including investing £725m in new Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund programmes.
The Creative Industries Sector Deal was announced in March 2018 and leverages £72 million of this funding to support creative innovation – with a further £50 million being committed by industry.
The Audience of the Future Demonstrators programme is a key part of this Deal, backed by £16 million of Government Industrial Strategy Challenge Funding and £6 million from industry.
The programme will bring together globally renowned intellectual property, storytellers and technology companies to explore and pioneer cutting-edge immersive experiences.
Today, I’m delighted announce the winning Demonstrators for three areas which UKRI have identified as having major opportunities to grow new audiences through immersive technology:
In Performance, the Demonstrator will be led by the Royal Shakespeare Company and involve 15 specialist immersive organisations from theatre, music, video production, gaming and research.
They will explore what it means to perform live, and use emerging technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.
Using devices such as mobile phones, extended reality headsets and streams into live performance environments, or even in the home, audiences will experience live performance like never before.
In the field of Visitor Experience, the demonstrator will be a pioneering collaboration led by Factory 42 and involving the National History Museum and the Science Museum that will bring dinosaurs and robots to life by placing audiences in new worlds and giving them the ability to interact with them.
Two multi-sensory and interactive worlds will be created in the iconic rooms of the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum, combining mixed reality technology and immersive theatre.
Finally, the Sports Entertainment Demonstrator will focus on esports – which has the fastest growing global live sports audience. The consortium will include ESL, the largest esports content producer in the world, as well as leading academics and innovators across immersive technologies, data-driven content production and broadcast.
This demonstrator will produce a new platform called Weavr to leverage the data-rich environment of esports and transform how the hundreds of millions of remote esports viewers can use virtual to reality to experience esports. Further down the line, Weavr could even change how we play physical sports.
So I would like to offer my congratulations to the winning Demonstrators. I have every confidence that you will build incredible experiences that will change the way we engage with art, theatre, sports and more.
One of the greatest privileges of the job I do is getting to experience the cutting edge. The experiences are truly transformative, and the more people we can bring them to, the faster we will build the market and the faster we will build more world-leading businesses.
I am thrilled that we here in the UK are able to lead the world on immersive experiences. I’m excited to see what you all do.