RT journal article
T1 Analyzing Port State Control Data to Explore Future Improvements to GMDSS Training
A1 Rey Charlo, Raquel Esther
A1 Cueto Ancela, José Luis
A1 Piniella Corbacho, Francisco
A2 Ciencias y Técnicas de la Navegación y Construcciones Navales
K1 GMDSS
K1 PSC inspections
K1 maritime communication safety
K1 General Operators Certificate
AB This article uses data generated by Port State Control (PSC) inspections of ships in nationalports (Paris MoU) to assess their compliance with radio-communications safety regulations. By mainlyapplying binary logistic regression methods, the aim is to examine and understand the relationshipbetween the severity of deficiencies in maritime communications and some characteristics of inspectedships. The raw data from the PSC detention database from 2005 to 2022 undergoes post-processingbefore being analyzed to explore patterns and coincidences with the rest of the potential risk areas.To do so, 23,725 PSC inspections were used. Several classification criteria have been proposed thatcan better gauge the risk related to distress communications at sea from the dataset. The resultsconnect the probability of detention with the ship age at the inspection date, the flag of the registry,the type of ship, and the location of the port within the countries adhering to the Paris MoU. Anotherachievement is that the number of PSC inspections of maritime communications in a given period is abetter indicator of the risk to safety than the total number of deficiencies detected in these inspectionsduring the same period. This study also explores inspection deficiencies related to competency gapsidentified in the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) operators, and precisely using thenumber of PSC inspections as a criterion of risk for safety is consistent with the recommendationsof the Maritime Safety Committee Circular (2006), MSC.1/Circ.1208. Another finding from thetime series is that a greater rate of decrease is identified for GMDSS equipment-related deficienciescompared to GMDSS training-related deficiencies. This alone poses a review of the refreshing coursesand methods to maintain the General Operator Certificate (GOC) qualification to operate maritimeradio communications facilities belonging to the (current and future) GMDSS.
PB MDPI
YR 2023
FD 2023-12-17
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29923
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29923
LA eng
NO Este estudio trata de) clasificar y ordenar el riesgo potencial para la seguridad marítima vinculado a las comunicaciones en el mar y diferentes variables explicativas, especialmente el pabellón del barco, el tipo de barco, la edad del barco, el puerto de inspección, etc. Los datos utilizados van del 2005 al 2022. De todo ello se extraen lecciones que pueden aplicarse a la obtención y renovación del certificado GOC.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-nov-2026