Honduras International Survey And Inspection Bureau News

U.K. Detains Cambodian Ship

Surveyors from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency have detained a Cambodian registered ship after they found that the ship was just playing lip-service to the newly introduced requirements for a safety management system. `Sea Runner a 1965 built 1242 gross ton three-hold general cargo vessel was detained in Seaham on August 6. She had been targeted for inspection after having been detained four times previously in Europe in the past year. On boarding surveyors found that the Russian crew could not identify the company responsible for the operation of the ship, identify the designated person ashore responsible for monitoring the safe operation of the ship or produce safety management documentation in their working language.