Ship risk profile
Targeting and ship risk profile
Targeting
Every day a number of ships will be selected for a port State control inspection throughout the region. To facilitate such selection, the central computer database, known as ‘THETIS’ is consulted by PSCO’s This information system, hosted by the European Maritime Safety Agency, informs national PSC authorities which ships are due for an inspection. Data on ships particulars and reports of previous inspections carried out within the Paris MoU region are provided by the information system as well
Ship risk profile
Each ship in the information system will be attributed a ship risk profile (SRP), in accordance with Annex 7 of the Paris MoU text. This SRP will determine the ships priority for inspection, the interval between its inspections and the scope of the inspection.
Ships are assigned high, standard or low risk. This is based on generic and historic parameters. Table 1 of annex 7 shows the criteria within each parameter for each ship risk profile.
A ship’s risk profile is recalculated daily taking into account changes in the more dynamic parameters such as age, the 36 month history and company performance. Recalculation also occurs after every inspection and when the applicable performance tables for flag and R.O.s are changed.