Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
5th National / 1st International Congress on Ports (Uluslararası), İzmir, Türkiye, 4 - 05 Kasım 2021
ABSTRACT
Port
State Control (PSC) checks compliance of ships with maritime
standards and regulations implementation. These inspections enhance a safe and
secure shipment, which also contributes to the protection of the environment
against pollution and other undesirable outcomes. Detentions that occur because
of inspections provide an important opportunity to understand the problems
related to the ship. For this purpose, the association rule mining method was
employed to analyze the variables of ship tonnage, ship flag, ship age, ship
type, ship class, and detention place to identify hidden patterns and
co-occurrences in the dataset divided according to pre-pandemic and pandemic
period. Inspection data was acquired from the Black Sea Information System
database that consisted of 1800 detentions covering the period of 2015-2021,
including June. This paper aims to reveal the inspection and detention trends
at the Black Sea MOU Region, before and during the covid-19 pandemic.
Pre-pandemic analysis showed that nearly 50% of Russian classed and
Russian-flagged general cargo/multipurpose ships with under 10.000 GT were
detained in the Samsun Port, and almost 63% of Turkish Lloyd classed and Turkish-flagged
general cargo/multipurpose ships with under 10.000 GT were detained in the
Novorossiysk Port. On the other hand, pandemic period results showed that
almost half of the Panama-flagged and Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NKK) classed bulk
carriers with 10.000 GT were detained in the Novorossiysk Port. In addition,
both pre-pandemic and pandemic period analyses revealed that the ships with the
highest risk of detention were bulk carriers above 10,000 GT and general
cargo/multipurpose ships below 10000 GT.
Keywords: Port State Control, Pandemic, Black Sea MOU.