Today (14 July) the Chairman of the Committee of the Mediterranean Memorandum of Understanding on port State control (Med MoU), Captain Mark A. Chapelle, and IMO’s Jo Espinoza-Ferrey, Director of the Administrative Division, signed an agreement to renew the existing protocol and include an automatic renewal procedure. These agreements alleviate administrative burdens so that reports on port State inspections are sent electronically by port State inspection regimes on behalf of their members, thereby allowing IMO Member States to comply with PSC-related reporting requirements.
The signing took place in the margin of the second session of the Sub-Committee on Implementation of IMO Instruments (III) and was also attended by a representative of the Secretariat of the Med MoU.