Port State Control Officers as guests in Hamburg

The representatives of the PSC authorities of the area covered by the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MoU), which include the European states as well as Russia and Canada, get together twice a year for working seminars. This year Germany was host of this seminar.

The focus of this train-the-trainer seminar was the upcoming Concentrated Inspection Campaign of the PSC with the topic "Emergency Systems and Procedures" which is planned for September until November 2019. The PSC officers of the Ship Safety Division of BG Verkehr and their foreign colleagues discussed uniform procedures for the campaign.

The three-day session conducted in English was complemented with guest lectures on the tasks of the German Central Command for Maritime Emergencies (Havariekommando), on experiences with hybrid ferries, on rescue of persons over board from the sea and on ballast water management.