Inspections carried out in ports outside the flag state, the deficiencies found and the detentions issued. This is where SOLAS, MARPOL and MLC obligations are actually enforced.
Paris Memorandum of Understanding (enforcement of SOLAS, MARPOL, MLC)
What is counted
Number of inspections, distinct ships inspected, detentions, recorded deficiencies and the detention rate
Unit
count · %
Coverage
1982–2025 (annual report)
Publisher
Paris MoU Secretariat · EMSA THETIS
Sample value from the publisher’s release
2025: 16,474 inspections · 14,554 ships · 688 detentions · 51,797 deficiencies · detention rate 4.18% (2024: 4.03%)
The detention rate depends on the inspection pool; because inspections concentrate on ships selected by risk profile, the rate is not a direct measure of flag quality.
Protected Planet / WDPA — protection status detail (IUCN category, governance type, area geometry)
Bulk download of the detailed records and API access require registration and a key; sources demanding credentials are not connected here. The country-level coverage percentage IS connected, via the World Bank compilation; only the site-level detail remains closed.
Global Fishing Watch — AIS-based fishing effort
API access requires a token.
IMO GISIS — casualty and incident records
The non-public modules require an account, and no machine-readable export of the public subset is published.
