"Captain, the three defects found in the initial inspection of your ship have passed the re-inspection, and next, it will be put into the Spring Festival travel rush. Please be sure to drive carefully to ensure the safety of water passenger transportation!" On January 4, law enforcement officers of Zhoushan Maritime Safety Administration re-inspected the passenger ship "Xin Hai Hua 32" at Lujiazhi passenger terminal.
Maritime law enforcement officers said that except for 3 passenger ships in repair or in suspension, 159 passenger ferries of Zhoushan for the Spring Festival travel rush had all completed the safety inspection before the holiday, and the 720-some defects found in the security inspection have been rectified.
The Spring Festival travel rush in 2023 started on January 7, ended on February 15, with a period of 40 days. In order to ensure the seaworthiness of passenger ferries under the jurisdiction, crew competency, and people's safety travel during the Spring Festival, Zhoushan Maritime Safety Administration checked the safety of 20 passenger ferry enterprises under the jurisdiction and 157 passenger ferries to be put into operation for the Spring Festival travel rush before the holiday to ensure that all passenger ferries can be put into operation with "zero defects”. Firmly implementing the "people-centered" service concept, the Administration launched pre-Spring Festival passenger ferry safety inspection work from November 24, 2022. The key points of this passenger ferry safety inspection included: the technical condition and maintenance of critical equipment and facilities such as fire-fighting equipment and life-saving equipment; the implementation of the ship's manning and crew rest and on-duty system; the operation of enterprises’ safety management system; the implementation of ship-shore emergency drills and the prevention and control of emergencies and the ability to deal with them.
To ensure a successful inspection, the Administration effectively used the passenger ferry "1211" safety inspection work method. The inspection efficiency is improved through opening up the channels of the ship's technical condition, crew competence, system operation inspection. By establishing a dynamic tracking mechanism for the rectification of safety inspection defects of passenger ferries and compiling the checklist for fire emergency capability of passenger ferries, the Administration has continuously improved the emergency handling capability of passenger ferry crew. We must make sure that the defect rectification and safety inspection review dynamics are strictly supervised by special personnel, and passenger ferries with any defects are forbidden to sail. The 721 defective items found in the initial inspection have been corrected.
Reprinted from: China Transportation News Network