The Paris MOU has hit back at suggestions that its decision to stop providing bulk data on port state control (PSC) inspections is a threat to safety.
TradeWinds has reported how insurers, vetting agencies, classification societies and charterers will find their risk-assessment models seriously disrupted by the Paris MOU’s decision, which came into force on 1 January.
In an email to TradeWinds, Paris MOU secretary general Luc Smulders insisted that the data provision is not the primary way his organisation supports safety in the shipping industry.
