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AMSA Annual PSC Report 2024 Australian Maritime Safety Authority
(AMSA) has published its Annual Port State Control (PSC) report for 2024, which reveals that deficiencies related to the International Safety Management (ISM) category were the most prevalent.
According to the AMSA, there was a 19.1% decrease in the number of initial PSC inspections, with 2,264 conducted in 2024 compared to 2,797 in 2023. The detention rate for PSC inspections also decreased slightly in 2024, at 5.9% compared to 6.3% in 2023. This 2024 rate was consistent with the 10-year rolling average of 5.8%.
Port State Control
The number of deficiencies per PSC inspection remained stable in 2024, with a rate of 2.63 compared to 2.68 in 2023. However, this remains higher than the 10-year rolling average of 2.26 deficiencies per inspection.
PSC Detainable Deficiencies According to the data, deficiencies related to the ISM category were the most prevalent, slightly increasing from 27.0% in 2023 to 27.57% in 2024. Fire safety maintained its position as the category with the second-highest share of detainable deficiencies at 15.14%. The share of detainable deficiencies for water/ weathertight conditions and lifesaving appliances remained stable at 12.97% and 11.35%, respectively. Notably, the proportion of detainable deficiencies under MARPOL Annex I nearly doubled, rising from 4.9% in 2023 to 8.11% in 2024.
Top five detention rates by ship type In 2024, AMSA detained a total of 133 ships, resulting in an average detention rate of 5.9%, slightly down from 6.3% in 2023.
- In 2024, tug boats topped the list with the same rate of 16.7% (3 detentions).
- Offshore service vessels ranked second in both years, with a detention rate of 12.5%, 2 detentions in 2023 and 3 in 2024.
- General cargo/multi-purpose ships saw a decrease from 11.6% (30 detentions) in 2023 to 8.3% (6 detentions) in 2024, placing them third in both years.
- Chemical tankers, which were fourth in 2023 with an 8.1% detention rate (5 detentions), were replaced by bulk carriers in 2024, which had a 6.8% detention rate from 83 detentions.
- Gas carriers rounded out the top five in both years, with their detention rate dropping from 7.5% (3 detentions) in 2023 to 5.3% (3 detentions) in 2024.
International Salvage Union releases Salvage Industry Statistics for 2024
The International Salvage Union (ISU) has published its annual statistics for 2024. They are the only published measure of the state of the industry but do not include information from non-ISU members.
- Gross revenue for ISU members – US$ 406 million (2023, US$ 398 million) - 191 services provided (2023, 184 services) - Lloyd’s Open Form (LOF) – 29 cases (2023, 16). LOF revenue US$ 118 million (2023, US$ 29 million)
- Wreck removal income – US$ 205 million from 40 services (2023, US$ 193 million from 30 services)
All numbers are gross income from which all the contractors’ costs must be paid. Numbers are for income in the year received not the year when the service was provided and there can be an element of “time lag”.
The headline 2024 numbers show great consistency with the 2023 statistics and continue with the modest recovery from the low point of 2022. Emergency response services generated US$ 181 million split between LOF, US$ 118 million, and other contracts, $63 million.
Wreck removal income was US$ 205 million from 40 operations – very similar to the 2023 number of US$ 193 million. Wreck removal income is important for ISU members and these numbers maintain the division of the industry’s income at the typical levels of approximately 50:50 between emergency response and wreck removal income.
ISU President, John Witte, commented: “These numbers at least show that the industry has stabilised compared with the low point two years ago, but they are still well below the higher numbers from a decade ago. Sustaining the salvage industry so that professional contractors are available to respond around the world remains a focus both for ISU but also for the insurance and ship owning communities.”
The 2024 ISU statistics show an increased number of LOF cases – 29 for ISU members – generating income of US$ 118 million. This is a notable increase on the previous year in which there were 16 LOF cases which had been the lowest level of LOF contracts for ISU members since the ISU started collecting statistics some 30 years ago.
SCOPIC revenue at US$ 20 million in 2024 was up from US$ 9 million previously.
The increased number of LOFs is notable, but it is not possible to attribute this to a specific cause given that the statistics are for the year when income is received, not when the services were provided. ISU believes that income based on awards under Article 13 of the Salvage Convention should be the cornerstone of funding the industry, so the increase is welcome.
Revenue in 2024 from operations conducted under contracts other than LOF was US$ 63 million. The average revenue from each non-LOF contract was US$ 1.2 million.
The ISU statistics are collected from all ISU members by a professional third party, which aggregates and analyses them.
Download the report at
https://bit.ly/44nwk6e.
58 | ISSUE 113 | SEP 2025 | THE REPORT
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