Deficiency notice codes

A deficiency notice uses codes to show non-compliance found during a Port State control (PSC) inspection.

Use this list of codes to check your deficiency notice. The codes will help you identify and resolve non-compliance found during your PSC inspection.

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Certificates and documentation (01101 – 01342)

Ship certificates

01101 - Cargo Ship Safety Equipment (including exemption)

01102 - Cargo Ship Safety Construction (including exemption)

01103 - Passenger Ship Safety (including exemption)

01104 - Cargo Ship Safety Radio (including exemption)

01105 - Cargo Ship Safety (including exemption)

01106 - Document of Compliance (DoC/ISM code)

01107 - Safety Management Certificate (SMC/ISM code)

01108 - Load Lines (including exemption)

01109 - Decision support system for Masters on passenger ships

01110 - Authorisation for grain carriage

01111 - Liquefied Gases in Bulk (CoF/GC code)

01112 - Liquefied Gases in Bulk (ICoF/IGC code)

01113 - Minimum Safe Manning Document

01114 - Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (CoF/BCH Code)

01115 - Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (ICoF/IBC Code)

01116 - Operational Limitations for Passenger ships

01117 - Prevention of Pollution by Oil (IOPP)

01118 - Prevention of Pollution by NLS in Bulk (NLS)

01119 - International Sewage Pollution Prevention certificate

01120 - Statement of Compliance (CAS)

01121 - Interim Statement of Compliance (CAS)

01122 - International Ship Security certificate

01123 - Continuous synopsis record

01124 - International Air Pollution Prevention (IAPP) certificate

01125 - Engine International Air Pollution Prevention (EIAPP) certificate

01126 - Document of Compliance Dangerous Goods

01127 - Special Purpose Ship Safety

01128 - High Speed Craft Safety and Permit to Operate

01129 - Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Safety

01130 - INF certificate of fitness

01131 - International Anti-fouling-System certificate

01132 - Tonnage certificate

01133 - Civil Liability for Oil Pollution certificate

01134 - Polar Ship Certificate

01135 - Documents for carriage of dangerous goods

01136 - International Ballast Water Management Certificate

01138 - International Energy Efficiency certificate

01139 - Maritime Labour Certificate

01140 - Declaration of Maritime Labour Compliance (part I and II)

01142 - Liability for the removal of wrecks certificate

01199 - Other (certificates)

Crew certificates

01201 - Certificates for master and officers

01202 - Certificate for rating for watchkeeping

01203 - Certificates for radio personnel

01204 - Certificate for personnel on tankers

01205 - Certificate for personnel on fast rescue boats

01206 - Certificate for advanced fire-fighting

01209 - Manning specified by the minimum safe manning doc

01210 - Certificate for medical first aid

01211 - Cert for personnel on survival craft & rescue boat

01212 - Certificate for medical care

01213 - Evidence of Basic Training

01214 - Endorsement by flagstate

01215 - Application for Endorsement by flagstate

01216 - Certificate for personnel on ships subject to the IGF Code

01217 - Ship Security Officer Certificate

01218 - Medical certificate

01219 - Training and qualification MLC - Personnel safety training

01220 - Seafarers' employment agreement (SEA)

01221 - Record of employment

01222 - Doc evidence for personnel on passenger ships

01223 - Security awareness training / designated security duties training

01224 - Certificate for rating able seafarer deck/engine and electro-technical

01299 - Other (STCW)

Documents

01302 - SAR Co-operation plan for passenger ships trading on fixed routes

01303 - Unattended Machinery Spaces (UMS) Evidence

01304 - Declaration of AFS compliance

01305 - Log-books/compulsory entries

01306 - Shipboard working arrangements

01307 - Minimum hours of rest

01308 - Records of seafarers' daily hours of work or rest

01309 - Fire control plan - all

01310 - Signs, indications

01311 - Survey report file

01312 - Thickness measurement report

01313 - Booklet for bulk cargo loading/unloading/stowage

01314 - Shipboard oil pollution emergency plan (SOPEP)

01315 - Oil record book

01316 - Cargo information

01317 - Cargo record book

01318 - P&A manual

01319 - Shipboard marine pollution emergency plan for NLS

01320 - Garbage record book

01321 - Endorsement of cargo booklet

01322 - Conformance Test Report

01323 - Fire safety operational booklet

01324 - Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

01325 - ACM statement of compliance (including exemption)

01326 - Stability Information Booklet

01327 - Energy efficiency design index file

01328 - Ship energy efficiency management plan

01329 - Report of inspection on MLC,2006

01330 - Procedure for complaint under MLC,2006

01331 - Collective bargaining agreement

01332 - AIS test report

01333 - Ship specific plans for the recovery of persons from the water

01334 - STS Operation Plan and Records of STS Operations

01335 - Polar Water Operational Manual

01336 - Certificate or documentary evidence of financial security for repatriation

01337 - Certificate or documentary evidence of financial security relating to shipowners liability

01338 - LNG bunker delivery note

01339 - Copy of IGF Code or national regulations

01340 - Statement of Compliance (MARPOL Annex VI)

01342 - IGF Pre-bunkering verification document

Structural conditions (02101 – 02199)

02101 - Closing devices/watertight doors

02102 - Damage control plan

02103 - Stability/strength/loading information and instruments

02104 - Information on the A/A-max ratio (Ro-ro/passenger ship only)

02105 - Steering gear

02106 - Hull damage impairing seaworthiness

02107 - Ballast, fuel and other tanks

02108 - Electrical installations in general

02109 - Permanent means of access

02110 - Beams, frames, floors-operational damage

02111 - Beams, frames, floors-corrosion

02112 - Hull - corrosion

02113 - Hull - cracking

02114 - Bulkhead - corrosion

02115 - Bulkheads - operational damage

02116 - Bulkheads - cracking

02117 - Decks - corrosion

02118 - Decks - cracking

02119 - Enhanced survey programme (ESP)

02120 - Marking of IMO number

02121 - Cargo area segregation

02122 - Openings to cargo area, doors, ...  scuttles

02123 - Wheelhouse - door - window

02124 - Cargo pumproom

02125 - Spaces in cargo areas

02126 - Cargo tank vent system

02127 - Safe access to tanker bows

02129 - Bulkhead strength

02130 - Triangle mark

02132 - Water level detectors on single hold cargo ships

02133 - Asbestos-containing materials

02134 - Loading/Ballast condition

02135 - Beams, frames, floors - construction

02136 - Hull - construction

02137 - Bulkheads - construction

02138 - Decks - construction

02199 - Other (Structural conditions)

Water or weather-tight conditions (03101 – 03199)

03101 - Overloading

03102 - Freeboard marks

03103 - Railing, gangway, walkway and means for safe passage

03104 - Cargo and other hatchways

03105 - Covers (hatchway-, portable-, tarpaulins, etc.)

03106 - Windows, sidescuttles and deadlights

03107 - Doors

03108 - Ventilators, air pipes, casings

03109 - Machinery space openings

03110 - Manholes/flush scuttles

03111 - Cargo ports and other similar openings

03112 - Scuppers, inlets and discharges

03113 - Bulwarks and freeing ports

03114 - Stowage incl. uprights, lashing, etc (timber)

03199 - Other (load lines)

Emergency systems (04101 – 04124)

04101 - Public address system

04102 - Emergency fire pump and its pipes

04103 - Emergency, lighting,batteries and switches

04104 - Low level lighting in corridors

04105 - Location of emergency installations

04106 - Emergency steering position com./ compass reading

04107 - Emergency towing arrangements and procedures

04108 - Muster list

04109 - Fire drills

04110 - Abandon ship drills

04111 - Damage control plan

04112 - Shipboard Marine Pollution emergency operations

04113 - Water level indicator

04114 - Emergency source of power - Emergency generator

04115 - Safe areas

04116 - Means of communication between safety centre and other control stations

04117 - Functionality of Safety Systems

04118 - Enclosed space entry and rescue drills

04119 - IGF Code drills and emergency exercises

04120 - Damage control drill for passenger ships

04121 - Crew familiarisation with emergency systems

04122 - Information on passenger counting

04123 - IGF Equipment in general

04124 - Purging/Inerting of bunkering lines discharge in atmosphere

Radio communications (05101 – 05199)

05101 - Distress messages: obligations and procedures

05102 - Functional requirements

05103 - Main installation

05104 - MF Radio installation

05105 - MF/HF Radio installation

05106 - INMARSAT ship earth station

05107 - Maintenance/duplication of equipment

05108 - Performance standards for radio equipment

05109 - VHF radio installation

05110 - Facilities for reception of marine safety information

05111 - Satellite EPIRB 406 MHz/1.6 GHz

05112 - VHF EPIRB

05113 - SART/AIS-SART

05114 - Reserve source of energy

05115 - Radio log (diary)

05116 - Operation/maintenance

05118 - Operation of GMDSS equipment

05199 - Other (radio communication)

Cargo operations including equipment (06101 – 06199)

06101 - Cargo Securing Manual

06102 - Grain

06103 - Other cargo/timber/deck/construction

06104 - Lashing material

06105 - Atmosphere testing instruments

06106 - Cargo transfer - Tankers

06107 - Cargo operation

06108 - Cargo density declaration

06109 - Loading instrument

06199 - Other (cargo)

Fire safety (07101 – 07199)

07101 - Fire prevention structural integrity

07102 - Inert gas system

07103 - Division - decks,bulkheads and penetrations

07104 - Main Vertical zone

07105 - Fire doors/openings in fire-resisting divisions

07106 - Fire detection and alarm system

07107 - Fire patrol

07108 - Ready availability of fire fighting equipment

07109 - Fixed fire extinguishing installation

07110 - Fire fighting equipment and appliances

07111 - Personal equipment for fire safety

07112 - Emergency Escape Breathing Device and disposition

07113 - Fire pumps and its pipes

07114 - Remote Means of control (opening,pumps,ventilation,etc.) Machinery spaces

07115 - Fire-dampers

07116 - Ventilation

07117 - Jacketed high pressure lines

07118 - International shore-connection

07119 - IGF bunkering station, manifold and couplings

07120 - Means of escape

07121 - Crew alarm

07122 - Fire control plan

07123 - Operation of Fire protection systems

07124 - Maintenance of Fire protection systems

07125 - Evaluation of crew performance (fire drills)

07126 - Oil accumulation in engine room

07199 - Other (fire safety)

Alarms (08101 – 08199)

08101 - General alarm

08102 - Emergency signal

08103 - Fire alarm

08104 - Steering gear alarm

08105 - Engineers' alarm

08106 - Inert gas alarm

08107 - Machinery controls alarm

08108 - UMS - alarms

08109 - Boiler alarm

08110 - Closing water-tight doors alarm

08199 - Other (alarms)

Safety of navigation (10101 – 10199)

10101 - Pilot ladders and hoist/pilot transfer arrangements

10102 - Type approval equipment

10103 - Radar

10104 - Gyro compass

10105 - Magnetic compass

10106 - Compass correction log

10107 - Automatic radar plotting aid (ARPA)

10109 - Lights, shapes, sound-signals

10110 - Signalling lamp

10111 - Charts

10112 - Electronic charts (ECDIS)

10113 - Automatic Identification System (AIS)

10114 - Voyage data recorder (VDR)/Simplified Voyage data recorder (S-VDR)

10115 - GNSS receiver/terrestrial radio navigation system

10116 - Nautical publications

10117 - Echo sounder

10118 - Speed and distance indicator

10119 - Rudder angle indicator

10120 - Revolution counter

10121 - Variable pitch indicator

10122 - Rate-of-turn indicator

10123 - International code of signals-SOLAS

10124 - Life-saving signals

10125 - Use of the automatic pilot

10126 - Record of drills and testing steering gear

10127 - Voyage or passage plan

10128 - Navigation bridge visibility

10129 - Navigation records

10132 - Communication-SOLAS chap. 5

10133 - Bridge operation

10134 - HSC operation

10135 - Monitoring of voyage or passage plan

10136 - Establishment of working language on board

10137 - Long-range identification and tracking system (LRIT)

10138 - Bridge Navigation Watch Alarm System (BNWAS)

10199 - Other (navigation)

Life-saving appliances (11101 – 11199)

11101 - Lifeboats

11102 - Lifeboat inventory

11103 - Stowage and provision of lifeboats

11104 - Rescue boats

11105 - Rescue boat inventory

11106 - Fast Rescue Boats

11107 - Stowage of rescue boats

11108 - Inflatable liferafts

11109 - Rigid liferafts

11110 - Stowage and provision of liferafts

11111 - Marine Evacuation System

11112 - Launching  arrangements for survival craft

11113 - Launching  arrangements for rescue boats

11114 - Helicopter landing and pick-up area

11115 - Means of rescue

11116 - Distress flares

11117 - Lifebuoys including provision and disposition

11118 - Life jackets including provision and disposition

11119 - Immersion suits

11120 - Anti-exposure suits

11121 - Thermal Protective Aids

11122 - Radio life-saving appliances

11123 - Emergency equipment for 2-way communication

11124 - Embarkation arrangement survival craft

11125 - Embarkation arrangements rescue boats

11126 - Means of recovery of life-saving appliances

11127 - Buoyant apparatus

11128 - Line-throwing appliance

11129 - Operational readiness of life-saving appliances

11130 - Evaluation, testing and approval

11131 - On board training and instructions

11132 - Maintenance and inspections

11133 - Personal and group survival equipment

11134 - Operation of life-saving appliances

11135 - Maintenance of life-saving appliances

11199 - Other (life saving)

Dangerous goods (12101 – 12199)

12101 - Stowage/segregation/packaging dangerous goods

12104 - Dangerous Goods Code

12105 - Temperature control

12106 - Instrumentation

12107 - Fire protection cargo deck area

12108 - Personal protection

12109 - Special requirement

12110 - Tank entry

12112 - Dangerous goods / harmful substances in packaged form

12199 - Other (tankers)

Propulsion and auxiliary machinery (13101 – 13199)

13101 - Propulsion main engine

13102 - Auxiliary engine

13103 - Gauges, thermometers, etc

13104 - Bilge pumping arrangements

13105 - UMS - Ship

13106 - Insulation wetted through (oil)

13107 - Maintenance procedures for all gas related installations

13108 - Operation of machinery

13199 - Other (machinery)

Pollution prevention (14101 – 14899)

MARPOL Annex I

14101 - Control of discharge

14102 - Retention of oil on board

14103 - Segregation of oil and water ballast

14104 - Oil filtering equipment

14105 - Pumping, piping and discharge arrangements

14106 - Pump-room bottom protection

14107 - Oil discharge monitoring and control system

14108 - 15 PPM alarm arrangements

14109 - Oil/water interface detector

14110 - Standard discharge connection

14111 - SBT, CBT, COW

14112 - Cow operations and equipment manual

14113 - Double hull construction

14114 - Hydrostatically balanced loading

14115 - Condition assessment scheme

14116 - Pollution report-MARPOL Annex I

14117 - Ship type designation

14119 - Oil and oily mixtures from machinery spaces

14120 - Loading, unloading and cleaning procedures for cargo spaces of tankers

14121 - Suspected discharge violation

14122 - Oil fuel tank protection

14123 - Accidental oil outflow performance

14124 - Arctic Region - Prohibited type of fuel carried or used

14199 - Other (MARPOL Annex I)

MARPOL Annex II

14201 - Efficient stripping

14202 - Residue discharge systems

14203 - Tank-washing equipment

14204 - Prohibited discharge of NLS slops

14205 - Cargo heating systems - cat Y substances

14206 - Ventilation procedures/equipment

14207 - Pollution report-MARPOL Annex II

14208 - Ship type designation

14299 - Other (MARPOL Annex II)

MARPOL Annex III

14301 - Packaging

14302 - Marking and labelling

14303 - Documentation (MARPOL Annex III)

14304 - Stowage

14399 - Other (MARPOL Annex III)

MARPOL annex IV

14402 - Sewage treatment plant

14403 - Sewage comminuting and disinfecting system

14404 - Sewage discharge connection

14405 - Crew training and familiarization

14499 - Other (MARPOL Annex IV)

MARPOL annex V

14501 - Garbage

14502 - Placards

14503 - Garbage management plan

14599 - Other (MARPOL Annex V)

MARPOL annex VI

14601 - Technical files and if applicable, monitoring manual

14602 - Record book of engine parameters

14603 - Approval for exhaust gas cleaning system

14604 - Bunker delivery notes

14605 - Type approval certificate of incinerator

14606 - Diesel engine relating to air pollution control

14607 - Quality of fuel oil

14608 - Incinerator incl.operations and operating manual

14609 - Volatile organic compounds in tankers

14610 - Operational procedures for engines or equipment

14611 - Ozone-depleting substances

14612 - SOx records

14613 - Approved method

14614 - Sulphur oxides

14615 - Fuel change-over procedure

14616 - Alternative arrangements (SOx)

14617 - Sulphur content of fuel used

14699 - Other (MARPOL Annex VI)

Anti fouling

14701 - AFS supporting documentation

14702 - Logbook entries referring AFS

14703 - Paint condition

14799 - Other (AFS)

Ballast Water

14801 - Ballast Water Management Plan

14802 - Ballast Water Record Book

14803 - Construction dates applicable for BWM

14804 - Ballast Water Exchange

14805 - Sediment removal and disposal

14806 - Crew Training and familiarisation

14807 - Performance standard not met

14808 - Prototype ballast water treatment

14809 - Conditions for exemptions

14810 - [Suspected] Ballast Water Discharge violation in port

14811 - Ballast Water Management System

14899 - Other (Ballast Water Management)

ISM (15101 – 16101)

15101 - Safety and environment policy

15102 - Company responsibility and authority

15103 - Designated person(s)

15104 - Masters responsibility and authority

15105 - Resources and personnel

15106 - Shipboard operations

15107 - Emergency preparedness

15108 - Reports of non-conformities, accidents and hazardous occurrences

15109 - Maintenance of the ship and equipment

15110 - Documentation-ISM

15111 - Company verification, review and evaluation

15112 - Certification, verification and control

15150 - Multiple Elements of the ISM code

15199 - Other (ISM)

16100 - ISPS

16101 - Security-related defects

Labour conditions (18101 – 18499)

Minimum requirements for seafarers

18101 - Minimum age

18102 - Night working

18103 - Medical fitness

18104 - Recruitment and placement service

18199 - Other (minimum requirements)

Conditions of employment

18201 - Fitness for duty - work and rest hours

18202 - Legal documentation on work and rest hours - (18202)

18203 - Wages

18204 - Calculation and payment of wages

18205 - Measures to ensure transmission to seafarer's family

18299 - Other (conditions of employment)

Accommodation, recreational facilities, food and catering

18301 - Noise, vibration and other ambient factors

18302 - Sanitary Facilities

18303 - Drainage

18304 - Lighting (Accommodation)

18305 - Hospital accommodation (Sickbay)

18306 - Sleeping room, additional spaces

18307 - No direct openings into sleeping rooms cargo/mach

18308 - Furnishings

18309 - Berth dimensions, etc.

18310 - Minimum headroom

18311 - Messroom and recreational facilities

18312 - Galley, handling room (maintenance)

18313 - Cleanliness

18314 - Provisions quantity

18315 - Provisions quality and nutritional value

18316 - Water, pipes, tanks

18317 - Food personal hygiene

18318 - Food temperature

18319 - Food segregation

18320 - Record of inspection (food and catering)

18321 - Heating, air conditioning and ventilation

18322 - Insulation

18323 - Office

18324 - Cold room, cold room cleanliness, cold room temperature

18325 - Training and qualification of ship's cook

18326 - Laundry, Adequate Locker

18327 - Ventilation (Working spaces)

18328 - Record of inspection

18399 - Other (accommodation, recreational facilities)

Health protection, medical care, social security

18401 - Medical Equipment, medical chest, medical guide

18402 - Access to on shore medical doctor or dentist

18403 - Standard medical report form

18404 - Medical doctor or person in charge of medical care

18405 - Medical advice by radio or satellite

18406 - Medical care on board or ashore free of charge

18407 - Lighting (Working spaces)

18408 - Electrical

18409 - Dangerous areas

18410 - Gas instruments

18411 - Emergency cleaning devices

18412 - Personal equipment

18413 - Warning notices

18414 - Protection machines/parts

18415 - Entry dangerous spaces

18416 - Ropes and wires

18417 - Anchoring devices

18418 - Winches & capstans

18419 - Adequate lighting - mooring arrangements

18420 - Cleanliness of engine room

18421 - Guards - fencing around dangerous machinery parts

18422 - Asbestos fibres

18423 - Preventative information

18424 - Steam pipes, pressure pipes, wires (insulation)

18425 - Access / structural features (ship)

18426 - Exposure to harmful levels of ambient factors

18427 - Ship's occupational safety and health policies and programmes

18428 - On board programme for the prevention of occupational injuries and diseases

18429 - Procedure for inspection, reporting and correcting unsafe conditions and for investigating and reporting on-board occupational accidents

18430 - Ship's safety committee

18431 - Investigation after accident

18432 - Risk evaluation, training and instruction to seafarers

18499 - Other (health protection, medical care)

Other (99101 – 99103)

99101 - Other (safety in general)

99102 - Other (SOLAS operational)

99103 - Other (MARPOL operational)

Last updated: 7 August 2023