Question follow-through · 103590
Merchant Shipping: Containers
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what oversight exists of compliance with cargo securing requirements for container vessels, including how such compliance is monitored and enforced.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what oversight exists of compliance with cargo securing requirements for container vessels, including how such compliance is monitored and enforced.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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12 Jan 2026
Answer published
Foreign Flagged vessels in UK ports are subject to Port State Control Inspections in line with the Paris Memorandum of Understanding, an Inspection Regime to which the UK is a committed signatory. Cargo securing is subject to inspection at these attendanc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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