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A notice* released by the Zhoushan Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) on 29 March 2024 has led to the implementation of new safety measures and survey standards for ships undergoing repairs at Zhoushan shipyards in China.
These new measures include:
- Classification societies enhance and improve surveys regarding machinery items, including the main
engine, auxiliary engines, steering system, and other essential equipment that have been repaired. - Shipowners and the shipyard report repair items to class surveyors.
- Classification societies and the shipyard communicate with shipowners to ensure the related repair
items are surveyed. The survey and function testing must be completed and recorded satisfactorily
before the endorsement or issuing of certificates. - When a sea trial is needed for function testing and machinery repair quality verification, a set of short-term certificates may be needed to secure permission from a local port authority to conduct the trial.
The Lloyd’s Register Zhoushan office can be contacted for further information (Zhoushan@lr.org).
In case of substantial machinery failures affecting navigational safety or causing marine pollution, or if an
accident affects the ship’s seaworthiness, classification societies will be required to: - Carry out an occasional survey and issue a survey report.
- Apply remote survey method no more than the allowed scenarios according to IMO Res.A.1186(33).
- Investigate and analyze the related survey quality and report to the Zhoushan MSA.
If any classification society has experienced two or more machinery failures within six months that have caused
emergency/risk situations, all ships for which the society is responsible will be considered a priority for Zhoushan
Port State Control inspection.
Service suppliers
Classification societies are also required to enhance supervision of their service suppliers to ensure service
quality and refuse to adopt service reports that are sub-standard, dishonest or fake.
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