This year’s Port State Control Concentrated Inspection Campaign (PSC CIC), taking place from 1 September to 30 November 2025, will focus on ballast water management.
Ballast Water Management System (BWMS):
- Failure to inform PSC about BWMS malfunction
- Failure to record BWMS issues in the ballast water record book
- The BWMS, or parts of it, is out of order
- Contingency measures in the event of BWMS malfunction/ failure are not followed=
Ballast water management plan:
- Inconsistent, missing or outdated information about theBWM method, port of registry, designated person, etc.
Ballast water record book:
- Electronic record book used on board, but no flag approval letter is on board
- Incorrect or missing entries in the ballast water record book
- Mismatch between entries in the ballast water record book and observed ballast operations
- Mismatch between entries in the ballast water record book and the Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) log entries
- Old version of the ballast water record book is still in use
Masters and crew should be informed about the planned CIC and its focus.