Full inspection report: deficiencies across every check

A full inspection report is a document about port state control checks and nothing else: every inspection of the vessel with its type and outcome, the deficiencies recorded line by line with codes wherever the authority publishes them, and the ship certificates with their validity dates. It arrives by email, usually within 30 minutes.

The vessel is identified by name, IMO number, type, flag and year built — enough to attach the document to correspondence. It carries no owners, no sanctions screening, no particulars and no name history: those are in the vessel dossier.

How it differs from the dossier

These are two documents about different things, not a cheap and an expensive version of one.

The dossier answers the question about the vessel as a whole: who owns it and who owned it before, whether there are sanctions matches, what its particulars and class are, where it has been trading. The inspection report answers one question, but down to the last line.

How it differs from the vessel page

The vessel page and the dossier show totals: how many inspections, how many deficiencies, whether there was a detention. The full report shows the deficiencies themselves — one line per finding, per inspection.

Where the inspection history comes from

The report is built from the same history the vessel page shows: open port state control data combined with the official publications of the memoranda (Paris, Tokyo, Abuja, Viña del Mar, Caribbean, Black Sea, Mediterranean) and the US Coast Guard. The inspection, deficiency and detention counts in the report are therefore the same as on the page.

The summary of the first section names the bodies whose publications the vessel's history was checked against, for example: "Checked against the publications of: Paris MoU, Viña del Mar, US Coast Guard".

What is inside

The header carries four numbers: inspections, detentions all time, deficiencies, and the detention rate over 36 months. When the table holds inspections from the last 36 months, the rate is computed from them: detentions over that period divided by inspections over the same period, so you can recompute it from the table itself. Detentions and the rate are counted over different windows, and that is not a contradiction: a detention from 2000 counts towards detentions but not towards the rate for the last 36 months.

One inspection, one row: a state that belongs to two memoranda reports an inspection to both. Such an inspection appears in the table once, with both memoranda: "Black Sea MoU / Paris MoU".

"—" and "No data": the authority did not report a deficiency count. This is not "No deficiencies": that label appears only where zero deficiencies are known.

Not every deficiency is listed line by line: where the authority published only a deficiency count, with no wording, the inspection carries the line "Details not published by the port state control authority" in the deficiency section. The summary under the section title says how many deficiencies are listed and across how many inspections: "60 deficiencies across 16 inspections listed line by line. For 2 inspections with deficiencies the details were not published — marked as such."

What each deficiency row carries: date, port and inspecting authority, category and wording. The deficiency code is given wherever the authority itself publishes it: Paris MoU, the US Coast Guard, Viña del Mar, the Tokyo MoU detention list. Marks on a row:

• "ground for detention" — a deficiency that led to the detention, where the authority marks it;
• "class-related" — a deficiency the classification society is responsible for, where the authority marks it; "not class-related" — the opposite;
• "from the detention list" — a line from the official detention list. It sits next to the inspection's other deficiencies rather than replacing them: the detention list can carry grounds that are not among the other deficiencies.

What the order card shows

Above the order button sit the numbers for this vessel: how many inspections the document will cover, how many deficiencies and how many inspections ended in detention. They are the same numbers as in the Port state control section of the vessel page: the document is built from the same history.

How to order

1. Open a vessel page and find the Port state control section.
2. Press Order the report — the button sits exactly where the free part ends. When the page has the "Vessel documents" card, and without an account it always does, the report is ordered from its "Inspection report" row: the price button opens a dialog with the same order, and a link under the inspection table leads to that row. The dialog shows what the document for this vessel contains: the number of inspections, detentions and deficiencies with wording, a separate line for inspections whose wording the authority did not publish, and the ship certificates where there are any.
3. Without an account, enter your email and press Continue to payment. If you are signed in, you are not asked for an email: the account address is shown above the button, and pressing it opens the checkout straight away. If you have a check bundle for this report, the button reads Order from bundle: pressing it opens a step, and the check is spent only by Confirm and use my bundle.
4. The report arrives by email with the subject “Full inspection report — (IMO …)”, the document attached. You can follow its progress on the order page, which opens right after payment.

The report can also be added to a dossier in a single payment. The dossier then arrives immediately and the inspection report follows once it is built. The two emails carry different subjects, and the documents do not repeat each other.

If you are signed in and buy the same document again within 24 hours of the purchase, the order you already have opens instead of checkout — no second payment. If you need a fresh version sooner, contact support.

The report costs $14.99: press Order the report — $14.99 on the vessel page and pay by card. See a sample report next to the button shows what you get before you pay.

See a sample before you buy

Under the order button there is a "See a sample report" link. The document is marked "SAMPLE" in the header and in every footer, and it names itself a full inspection report rather than a dossier.

The sample shows the report format: how the category and subject columns read, and how ship certificates are listed with their validity dates. On a vessel page the sample is built for that vessel: its inspections, deficiencies and ship certificates are real in their row counts, while the values are hidden. On the pricing page the sample is fictional: its vessel and deficiencies are made up. The language follows the page.

How long it takes

The report is ready within 30 minutes and arrives by email. You can track it on the order page, which opens right after payment. If the report does not build on the first try, we look into the order and write to you with the outcome at the same email address.

If the payment is not confirmed within 10 minutes, the order page shows "Payment not confirmed yet" and a Contact support button. What to do is described in Vessel dossier, section "If the payment is not confirmed".

A vessel with no inspections on file does not show the order button. For a vessel whose inspections recorded no deficiencies, the report has no deficiencies section: it lists every inspection with its outcome and the ship certificates.

Is the report included in a subscription

No, in none of the plans: the monthly quotas on paid plans do not cover this report. A full report can be bought one-off or in a discounted bundle — see Check bundles.