P&I Condition Surveys for Loss Prevention 17 August 2018 No.18-007 Tweet Download PDF (965KB) This is a report on condition surveys carried out in the 2017 policy year (from 20 February 2017 to 20 February 2018). The three areas where defects were found most frequently during the surveys stayed the same over the last few years. The problems will continue to occur unless their causes are eliminated. We would like to inform you of the conditional survey implementation report and details as follows. Objective：Preventing and mitigating accidents Our condition surveys are conducted by independent surveyors for both vessels presented for entry and already-entered vessels that have reached a certain age. The objective is to detect at an early stage risk factors that could cause accidents and expose the Members and the Club to P&I claims. Eliminating risk factors prevents or mitigates accidents and maintains the seaworthiness and cargo-worthiness of the vessel above a certain level. 128 vessels surveyed in 2017 In the 2017 policy year, we carried out condition surveys for a total of 128 vessels. This included 55 entered vessels and 73 vessels presented for entry. We aimed to survey 81 vessels. However, 67.9% of them were actually surveyed. The reason why 26 vessels were not surveyed was the vessels’ schedules and the convenience of the ports of call. The surveys for these vessels are planned for the 2018 policy year. Over 90% of the surveys were conducted in Asia, mainly in Japan, Korea and China, and mainly during docking and anchoring. Defects found on over 80% of the vessels surveyed Defects or recommendations which required rectification were addressed on more than 80% vessels surveyed, which was 107 vessels out of 128. The number of defects was 308. This means many vessels were likely to have multiple defects. Many of the defects are highly likely to be pointed out also by Port State Control (PSC), so early rectifications were requested. The defects of (i) hatc