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Nearly a third of ships detained by Paris and Tokyo MoU mem­bers from Sep­tem­ber to Novem­ber in last year’s con­cen­trated inspec­tion cam­paign, CIC, on lifeboat launch­ing arrange­ments had defi­cien­cies dan­ger­ous to sea­far­ers aboard them. In a pre­lim­i­nary report, the Paris MOU says that one out of eight lifeboat drills were not car­ried out satisfactorily.

The find­ings high­light the poor per­for­mance and lack of com­mon­sense and a refusal to sub­stan­tively address safety issues by lifeboat mak­ers, on-load hook release man­u­fac­tur­ers and the indus­try gen­er­ally. The Paris MoU has expressed con­cern about poor boat drills which it says: “is often caused by lack of train­ing… Of the pro­ce­dures or instruc­tions and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of haz­ards asso­ci­ated with launch­ing and recov­ery of lifeboats one out of 6 was found unsat­is­fac­tory. These are related to the safety

man­age­ment sys­tem on board the ship.”

Apart from a lack of con­cern for sea­far­ers lives on the part of the own­ers and managers

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