Reduce the high risk of vessel detainment. The O'BRIEN'S Group can help you meet the requirements for vessels trading in U.S. waters. Through exacting preventive audits and inspections conducted by former U.S. Coast Guard Marine Inspectors or Master Mariners, we'll ensure that you're in compliance before being boarded by the U.S. Coast Guard. We'll provide recommendations, as well as liaison services to assist owners and operators to meet federal - and in some cases state and local - regulations. This valuable service will help keep your vessel in service and avoid costly demurrage fees and delays.
The O'BRIEN'S Group vessel services are designed to facilitate a first port call in United States Waters through routine port calls. The services include vessel contingency plan preparation, routine contingency plan maintenance, pre-boarding vessel inspection and preparation for U.S. Coast Guard Port State Inspections, ISM/ISO audit support services, CDI inspections, SOPEP preparation, OPA '90 Qualified Individual notification, and OPA '90 NPREP compliance and documentation.
Recently the U.S. Coast Guard issued Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (NVIC) 01-05 requiring that Non-Tank Vessels over 400 gross tons have a Vessel Response Plan by August 8th, 2005. Required under this plan, each owner/operator must have a Qualified Individual (QI), Spill Management Team and Oil SPill Removal Organization capable of responding to a worst case discharge. The NVIC will be followed shortly by a regulation with similar requirements. The O'BRIEN'S Group is pleased to provide comprehensive compliance services to meet all new requirements under the NVIC and impending regulation.
For more information on our Vessel Services, please go to our subsidiary; O'BRIEN'S Oil Pollution Services website (OOPSUSA.com).
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