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Preparation, attendance and close-out on the inspections your vessel is judged by: class annual, intermediate, renewal and docking surveys; flag State inspections; Port State Control, pre-arrival readiness to detention release support; external ISM, ISPS and MLC verifications; SIRE 2.0 and CDI vetting. Our own work: internal ISM audits, BWMS commissioning testing to BWM.2/Circ.70/Rev.1 in the scope stated in the quotation, EU MRV and IMO DCS data prepared for the accredited verifier, and condition, draught, bunker, cargo and damage surveys. You receive a dated report, the evidence and the next due date.
The instruments that govern this work, cited as a superintendent would write them. What each one requires of the shipowner — not what we sell.
Statutory surveys are carried out by the Administration or a recognised organisation (Reg. I/6). Cargo ship certificates run five years at most, a Passenger Ship Safety Certificate 12 months (Reg. I/14). Condition is maintained between surveys (Reg. I/11).
Recommendatory guidance adopted 3 December 2025, revoking A.1186(33). It sets out what a surveyor examines and tests at each initial, annual, intermediate, periodical and renewal survey. The intervals are set by the conventions.
Applies to passenger ships, and to cargo ships and MODUs of 500 GT and over (SOLAS IX/2). Internal safety audits at intervals not exceeding twelve months (12.1). DOC verified annually (13.4); SMC verified at least once intermediately (13.8).
Passenger ships, cargo ships of 500 GT and over, and MODUs, on international voyages (SOLAS XI-2/2). The ship holds an approved security plan; the ISSC is verified initially, at least once intermediately, and renewed within five years (Part A/19.1.1).
Ships of 500 GT and over on international voyages, or operating from or between ports in another country, carry a Maritime Labour Certificate and a DMLC (Reg. 5.1.3), valid five years, with an intermediate inspection (Standard A5.1.3).
A newly installed system is commissioning tested for correct installation and operation, with representative sampling and indicative analysis of the treated discharge. MEPC.325(75), in force 1 June 2022, replaced BWM regulations E-1.1.1 and E-1.1.5: the initial survey, or the additional survey where the system is fitted to a ship in service, must confirm the test has been carried out.
What is due, how often, and which instrument sets the period. Where an interval comes from the manufacturer or from class rather than from an IMO instrument, the table says so.
| Item | Interval | Set by | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual survey of safety construction and safety equipment | Annual | SOLAS Reg. I/8 and Reg. I/10 | Within three months before or after each anniversary date |
| ISM internal safety audit, ship and shore | ≤12 months | ISM Code para. 12.1 | Exceptional circumstances allow not more than three months beyond |
| Document of Compliance annual verification | Annual | ISM Code para. 13.4 | Within three months before or after the anniversary date |
| Intermediate survey of hull, machinery and equipment | 2nd or 3rd anniversary | SOLAS Reg. I/10 | In place of one annual survey; within three months either side of the second or third anniversary |
| Intermediate verification — SMC, ISSC and Maritime Labour Certificate | Between 2nd and 3rd anniversary | ISM Code para. 13.8; ISPS Code Part A/19.1.1; MLC 2006 Standard A5.1.3 | Between the second and third anniversary dates; ISM and ISPS require at least one such verification |
| Inspection of the outside of the ship's bottom | Twice in 5 years | SOLAS Reg. I/10 | Maximum 36 months between any two; one may be taken afloat where the society accepts in-water survey |
| Renewal survey of SOLAS statutory certificates | 5-yearly | SOLAS Reg. I/8(a)(ii), Reg. I/9(a)(ii) and Reg. I/10(a)(ii); validity under Reg. I/14 | Five-year maximum for cargo ships; a passenger ship is renewal-surveyed every 12 months (Reg. I/7(a)(ii)) |
| Class renewal (special) survey of the hull | 5-yearly | Classification society rules; IACS UR Z7 (hull) | May be commenced at the fourth annual survey; a survey commenced earlier must complete within 15 months |
| DOC, SMC, ISSC and Maritime Labour Certificate renewal | 5-yearly | ISM Code section 13; ISPS Code Part A, section 19; MLC 2006 Standard A5.1.3 | Each instrument sets its own five-year maximum validity |
| BWMS commissioning test at installation | On installation | BWM Convention Reg. E-1.1.1 (initial survey) and Reg. E-1.1.5 (additional survey on installation), as amended by IMO Res. MEPC.325(75) | Test and sampling method per BWM.2/Circ.70/Rev.1 |
| Ballast Water Management Certificate survey cycle | Annual / 2nd or 3rd anniversary / 5-yearly | BWM Convention Reg. E-1 | Separate from the commissioning test; annual survey within three months of the anniversary date |
| EU MRV and IMO DCS annual data reporting | Annual | Regulation (EU) 2015/757 as amended; MARPOL Annex VI fuel oil consumption data collection | IMO DCS within three months of calendar year end; EU MRV verified report by 31 March |
| Port State Control periodic inspection | 5–36 months | Paris MoU inspection regime — not an IMO instrument | By ship risk profile: high 5–6, standard 10–12, low 24–36 months |
| Additional survey after damage, defect or repair | On event | SOLAS Reg. I/7(b)(iii), applied to cargo ships by Reg. I/8(a)(v) and Reg. I/10(a)(vi) | After damage, defect or important repair; the master's or owner's report is Reg. I/11(c) |
Attendance is planned from the nearest of 6 service bases to any of the 299 ports in the published index, around the clock. If your port is not listed, ask — the index is what we publish, not the limit of where we mobilise.
We do not publish approval claims, and this page will not answer for your flag — an approval is checked on the granting authority's register, not on a supplier's website. Send the flag, the vessel and the scope. The quotation then sets it out item by item: what we carry out, what requires an authorisation for that flag and who must hold it, and what documentation is supplied in writing with the quotation for each. You verify anything supplied on the granting authority's own register — the Administration's published list, the accreditation body's schedule, or the classification society's.
Send the ETA and ETD. They set the attendance window we quote against, and the reply states what fits and what does not. We work 24/7 across the ports we cover, attending from the nearest of six bases — Istanbul, Izmir, Iskenderun, Varna, Constanta, London — or through the partner network where that is the faster route to the ship. If the stay is too short for a quotation cycle, call the hotline on +90 532 657 48 78 rather than the form.
A statutory certificate is issued by the flag Administration or its recognised organisation, not by a contractor. What you get from us is a report, a test record and a rectification evidence pack. The attending surveyor or PSC officer judges those on their content: instrument cited, method, readings, date, signature. Where a scope needs a specific authorisation to be accepted, the quotation says so before the job starts.
It goes in the report as found, with the instrument it fails against and the date. Nothing is closed quietly. Where the part is one we can supply and fit inside the same attendance, the quotation covers it. Where it is not, you get the defect, the options, and what each does to the certificate. The report to the Administration under SOLAS Reg. I/11(c) remains the master's or owner's.
Call the hotline on +90 532 657 48 78, also on WhatsApp — a detention is a phone call, not a form. The work is bounded: attend, rectify what can be rectified in port, produce the evidence pack per deficiency code, attend the re-inspection. The release decision belongs to the port State, and the ISM corrective action to the Company. We do not negotiate on your behalf.
Not class. The test is required at the survey associated with the installation, under BWM Convention regulation E-1 as amended by MEPC.325(75), and follows BWM.2/Circ.70/Rev.1: representative sampling and indicative analysis of the treated discharge. The scope we perform is set out in the quotation, and it names the independent testing body where one is required. The attending surveyor witnesses; the flag or its recognised organisation endorses the certificate.
The equipment actually found on ships, indexed by category, with the corporate history a superintendent needs — a plate still says Norsafe, Schat-Harding, Germanischer Lloyd. This is what the work covers. It is not a list of approvals: maker authorisation is granted per make and per type, and ours is supplied in writing with a quotation.
Marks are reproduced on their own light ground, unmodified, and are the property of their owners. A mark here identifies equipment this work covers. It does not indicate any endorsement, authorisation or approval of ShipCertify by its owner.
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Quote and attendance plan by return. Emergency attendance 24/7.