Strict control helps bring down ship detentions.
Economic Times (New Delhi, India), June, 2007
Jun. 5--Office of the chief surveyor at the Directorate General of Shipping (DG Shipping) is a much relieved place, thanks to lower detentions of Indian ships abroad under the Port State Controls (PSC) norms. So far in this calendar year, only one Indian ship has been detained as against six detentions during the same period last year.
A vessel belonging to Tolani Shipping was detained briefly at an Australian port in March. "The detention was minor," said an official from DG Shipping. The officials are hoping that strict measures taken by them last year will bring down the detentions in the year substantially.
In 2006, nine Indian ships were detained at various foreign ports including Iran, China and Singapore. In 2005, India had 16 detentions while...
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