Annual Report

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA)has published its National Compliance Plan 2026–27, outlining a risk-based approach to improving maritime safety, strengthening compliance and protecting seafarers across Australia’s shipping industry. The plan sets out how AMSA will target high-risk areas over the next 12 months, including conducting at least 2,400 Port State Control inspections on foreign-flagged vessels and 2,300 inspections on domestic commercial vessels. Continue reading “AMSA National Compliance Plan for 2026–27 outlined”

In 2025, the Tokyo MOU carried out 35,546 inspections – the highest number of inspections conducted in its history.

The Tokyo MOU PSC Annual Report 2025 added that “following last year, the detention rate continued the decreasing trend in 2025, however, it has not yet returned to the same level as the pre-pandemic period.”

In 2025, 35,546 inspections, involving 19,980 individual ships, were carried out on ships registered under 111 flags.

Out of those inspections, there were 23,230 inspections where ships were found with deficiencies. Continue reading “Record number of inspections carried out by Tokyo MOU in 2025”

The Tokyo MOU has released the preliminary results of a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) it held which focused on aspects of the Ballast Water Management Convention (BWM) 2004.

The campaign was carried out from 1 September 2025 to 30 November 2025, jointly with the Paris MoU.

Over the course of the CIC period, involving all types of ships, a total of 9,244 inspections were carried out. Of these inspections, 6,930 (74.96%) inspections were performed using the CIC questionnaire and a ship was subjected to only one CIC inspection during the campaign period. During the period, 184 ships where CIC was carried out were detained in total (2.66% detention rate). Of which, 30 detentions were the result of inspections with CIC questionnaires, which were detained as a direct result of the CIC concerning deficiencies, reflecting a CIC topic related detention rate of 0.43%. Continue reading “Tokyo MOU shares preliminary results of CIC on Ballast Water Management”