RT journal article
T1 Evaluation of Paris MoU Maritime Inspections Using a STATIS Approach
A1 Prieto Villar, José Manuel
A1 Amor, Víctor
A1 Turias Domínguez, Ignacio José
A1 Almorza Gomar, David
A1 Piniella Corbacho, Francisco
A2 Ciencias y Técnicas de la Navegación y Construcciones Navales
A2 Estadística e Investigación Operativa
A2 Ingeniería Informática
K1 maritime safety
K1 port state control
K1 Paris Memorandum of Understanding
K1 STATIS
AB Port state control inspections implemented under the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) have become known as one of the best instruments for maritime administrations in European Union (EU) Member States to ensure that the ships docked in their ports comply with all maritime safety requirements. This paper focuses on the analysis of all inspections made between 2013 and 2018 in the top ten EU ports incorporated in the Paris MoU (17,880 inspections). The methodology consists of a multivariate statistical information system (STATIS) analysis using the inspected ship's characteristics as explanatory variables. The variables used describe both the inspected ships (classification society, flag, age and gross tonnage) and the inspection (type of inspection and number of deficiencies), yielding a dataset with more than 600,000 elements in the data matrix. The most important results are that the classifications obtained match the performance lists published annually by the Paris MoU and the classification societies. Therefore, the approach is a potentially valid classification method and would then be useful to maritime authorities as an additional indicator of a ship's risk profile to decide inspection priorities and as a tool to measure the evolution in the risk profile of the flag over time.
PB MDPI
SN 2227-7390
YR 2021
FD 2021-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25788
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25788
LA eng
NO This research was funded by University of Cadiz.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-nov-2026