A veteran Ukrainian cargo vessel has been barred from European ports for 12 months after again failing a safety inspection.
The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MOU) said the 2,650-dwt Turbo SM (built 1978) was detained in Amaliapolis, Greece, on 15 June.
This is the third detention in the Paris MOU region within the last 36 months. The ship flies the flag of Comoros, which is black on the current Paris MOU list of flag states.
The ship was banned for three months in September last year.
As this is the second ban, the term is a year.
The ship, operated by Tommy Marine of Ukraine, was held for 16 days with 16 deficiencies in Greece.
Inspectors found that machinery spaces were not as required, and survival craft were not properly maintained and had inoperative launching arrangements.
In 2021, the ship was detained in the Russian port of Rostov-on-Don for nine days with 30 deficiencies.
Inspectors found corrosion to the hull, which was also damaged, impairing the seaworthiness of the cargo vessel.
Corrosion was also discovered to beams, frames and floors.
Previous detentions
Cargo and other hatchways were damaged, as was air pipe ventilator casing.
In addition, firefighting equipment, the radio, bridge navigation watch alarm system and anchoring devices were all inoperative.
The ship was held in Goole in the UK in early 2019 for 48 days with 24 deficiencies.
Eight months later, the vessel was detained in Copenhagen, Denmark.
This time it spent 21 days under detention and had 33 faults.
AIS data shows the Turbo SM moored in Turkey’s ship repair centre of Tuzla this week.
The ship’s class was suspended in November 2019 by Dromon Bureau of Shipping because a survey was overdue.
Tommy Marine has not responded to a request for comment.
