REGIONAL CO-OPERATION AND FUTURE OF PSC.
REGIONAL CO-OPERATION/AGREEMENT:- While national port state control alone will enhance the safety of ships and protection of marine environment, only a regional approach will ensure that substandard ships and operators have fewer places left to hide. Unless a regional approach is adopted, operator will just divert the vessel to ports where less stringent inspections are conducted causing economical disadvantage to countries who conduct proper inspection. To remedy this and to generally improve the effectiveness of inspection, many regions of the world have already or are beginning to enter into regional agreements on PSC. Countries of same region come on common agreements called memorandum of understanding(MOU). It ensures proper exchange of information about ship,their record and the result of inspection carried out. This enables to target only ships that have not been recently ins...