Port state control covering nearly 50 countries will carry out three months of concentrated inspections to check how ready crews are to tackle fires on ships.
The checks will be carried out by members of the Paris and Tokyo port state control regimes from 1 September to analyse fire safety plans and ensure that equipment is working properly.
The decision by the two regimes to run the campaign — the first of its kind for four years — was in part because of the “relatively large number of fires on board seagoing ships” and the large number of deficiencies identified during inspections.
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