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Improved strategies for the maritime industry to target vessels for inspection and to select inspection priority areas

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  • Knapp, S.
  • Heij, C.

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Inspection authorities such as Port State Control Memoranda of Understanding use different policies and targeting methods to select vessels for inspections and rely primarily on past inspection outcomes. One of the main goals of inspections is to improve the safety quality of vessels and to reduce the probability of future incidents. This study shows there is room for improvement in targeting vessels for inspections and in determining vessel-specific inspection priority areas (e.g., bridge management versus machinery related items). The proposed approach treats detention and incident types as separate risk dimensions and evaluates seven targeting methods against random selection of vessels using empirical data for 2018. The analysis is based on three comprehensive data streams that cover the world fleet and shows potential gains (reduction of false negative events) of 14-27 percent compared to random selection. This can be further improved by adding eight inspection priority risk areas that help inspectors to focus inspections by providing insight in the individual risk profile of vessels. Policy makers can further customize the approach by classifying the risk of vessels into categories and by selecting inspection targets and benchmark samples. A small application example is provided to demonstrate feasibility of the proposed approach for policy makers and inspection authorities.

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  • Knapp, S. & Heij, C., 2019. "Improved strategies for the maritime industry to target vessels for inspection and to select inspection priority areas," Econometric Institute Research Papers EI2019-21, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Econometric Institute.
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