Division 1 Detention index of a company

The detention index is the ratio of the number of detentions of all ships in a company’s fleet to the number of inspections of all the ships in the company’s fleet within the previous 36 months, compared with the average detention ratio for all ships inspected in the region covered by the Paris MoU over the previous 36 months.

The detention index shall be considered average if it is within a margin of 2 percentage points above or below the average detention ratio for all ships inspected in the region covered by the Paris MoU during the previous 36 months.

The detention index shall be considered above average if it is more than 2 percentage points above the average detention ratio for all ships inspected in the region covered by the Paris MoU during the previous 36 months.

The detention index shall be considered below average if it is more than 2 percentage points below the average detention ratio for all ships inspected in the region covered by the Paris MoU during the previous 36 months.

The detention index of a company shall be considered above average irrespective of all other inspection results if a refusal of access order in accordance with Directive 2009/16/EC is issued within the previous 36 months to any ship in the fleet of that company.