A product tanker has been banned from European ports after failing to call at a Dubai repair yard under an agreement to end a three-month detention in Germany.
Inspectors at the port of Kiel identified 42 deficiencies on the 46,157-dwt Arina 1 (built 2003) in September and detained it because of problems with crew training, pollution measures, lifeboats and poor maintenance.
The ship, owned and managed in the United Arab Emirates, left the German port on 19 December after an agreement that work would be carried out in a Dubai repair yard, but it failed to call there, said the 27-nation Paris MoU.
“Therefore … the ship will be refused further access to any port and anchorage in the Paris MoU region.”
The ship ballasted from Germany to Port Said, Egypt, before heading to Izmir, Turkey, where it has stopped for 10 days, according to Kpler tracking data.
The data suggests it last lifted oil from the Russian Black Sea port of Tuapse in September before discharging in a ship-to-ship transfer off the coast of Greece.
The Palau-flagged ship is owned by Dubai-based single-ship company Arina Inc and managed by Petrofleet Ship Management.
Petrofleet, which manages an elderly fleet of 13 ships including offshore supply vessels and tankers, according to Equasis, has been contacted for comment.
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