Procedures for Preparing a Cargo Ship for Dry-Docking and Various Surveys at Management Level

Procedures for preparing a cargo ship for Dry- docking and various surveys at
Management Level.

Series of Procedures for preparing a cargo ship:
The series of procedure for preparing a cargo ship contains various steps which are shown
below (Ship inspection database and rates, 2020):
 Before the port state control inspection:
 Entire certificates and essential documentation for the inspection do not require taking
them off from the ship as I will come on-board.
 Get prepared the equipment for testing purpose (Andrews, 2017).
 The surveyors need extra restraints to be fitted before entering into a lifeboat, if it
cannot be established that the lifeboat provisions are appropriately set.
 All operators and masters are required to be aware of the legal reporting needs on the
basis of section 185, 186 at Navigation act 2012 (Bell, 2019).
An incident report must be prepared by the owner within 72 hours, in case of incidence
occurrence. This form must be forwarded to the AMSA governmental sites.
This form includes various data in it, which are shown below:
 Vessel basic information
 Incident information
 Describe various points(who, where, what and how) about the incident occurrence
 Vessel actions at the time of incident
 Consequences
 Main causes of incident occurrence
 Actions taken during the incident occurrence
 Any additional comments or drawings
 Details of person who completed the report
 Affected persons
 Doing the inspection:
 Initial inspection:
I will go on-board for the various inspections, which are shown below:
 Checking about the valid documentations and certificates of the ship

 Checking about the ship compliance with the certificates
 Checking about the entire conditions of ship, equipment and its crews
 Detailed inspection:
More detailed inspection fees is 272$/hr. I will use my professional judgement for
various activities such as, conducting the inspection, defining the inspection’s extent,
and for defining the action required in case of deficiencies identification.
 If deficits are identified:
The vessel can be incarcerated for the time period, once the deficiencies get resolved.
It is possible to correct the deficiency during the inspection time, if it is considerably
minor, but a relatable notice may still be issued. When the notice is sued, then it is not
essential that the ship may not be detained or the ship may be able to navigate. The
decision is based on the deficiency severity and it is decided by me.
After a Port space control review:
If the vessel is being found to have deficits during an examination process, it may be delayed
or incarcerated for an unidentified time period. I, as an AMSA marine inspector can board a
vessel for inspection at any time and it is possible to detained unseaworthy ships under the
sections 257, 248 of the Navigation act 2012 (Gullett, 2019).
The PSC examinations are supported out under the IMP or International Marine
Organizations processes for port state control as revised from time to time (Kopela, 2016).
If the deficiencies re investigated during an assessment process:
 The ship can be incarcerated until these insufficiencies can be determined.
 Negligible deficits may be amended during the assessment process.
Delay and Detention:
If, I identified the clear grounds of incarceration due to vessel’s deficit, it will be incarcerated
until the vessel’s scheduled departure time get exceed. However, each effort is done for
avoiding the postponement of a ship, but it is owner’s concern to keep the vessel compliant
(Lindroos, 2019).