Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
Port State Control Regimes, MoUs, and Inspection Systems glossary (page 2)
Terminology of port State control: the regional memoranda of understanding such as the Paris, Tokyo, Abuja and Vina del Mar agreements, access-refusal sanctions for repeat detentions, information systems like APCIS, additional and unscheduled inspections, and the flag-State Administration concepts underpinning the global PSC inspection regime.
267 defined terms.
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U
- USCG Port State Information Exchange (PSIX)
- The publicly accessible US database of foreign-flag inspections and detentions.
V
- Vetting Inspection
- Tanker SIRE or CDI inspection on behalf of charterers.
- Vina del Mar Agreement
- Latin American PSC arrangement.
- VIQ (Vessel Inspection Questionnaire)
- The OCIMF SIRE questionnaire used in tanker vetting, distinct from but often aligned with PSC checks.
W
- Warning Letter
- A Paris MoU communication to flag and owner indicating that a ship is approaching banning thresholds.
- Western African PSC Programme
- Capacity-building under the Abuja MoU supported by IMO technical cooperation.
- White list
- Top performance category in the Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU flag performance lists.
- Window Close Date
- The latest date by which a ship must be inspected before it becomes Priority I.
- WindowOpen Date
- The earliest date on which a ship may be inspected under the NIR.
- Witness Inspection
- A combined inspection where two PSC authorities co-attend, often during PSCO training.
- WMU (World Maritime University)
- The IMO university in Malmo, Sweden, providing PSC officer education at the postgraduate level.
X
- XO Code
- Not a PSC term as such, but PSC reports cross-reference "expert opinion" notes for complex deficiencies.
Y
- Year of Detention
- The calendar year in which a detention occurred, used for performance list calculations.
- Yokohama
- Sumitomo Electric submarine cable plant site since 1936, producing modern fiber cable for NEC system orders.
Z
- Zeebrugge
- Belgian port with major ro-ro, container, and LNG terminals.
- Zero tolerance
- PSC approach applied to specific deficiency types, such as falsified oil record book entries, leading to immediate detention.
- Zone of Compliance
- An informal term for the threshold a ship must clear (deficiency rectification) before sailing after detention.