
Overview
Geo Barents is a rescue and salvage ship owned by Uksnøy & Co AS. She is currently chartered by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) for sea-rescue operations of refugees in the Mediterranean since June 2021. Geo Barents is the sixth ship chartered or operated by MSF for humanitarian missions. Geo Barents sails under the Norwegian flag.
Compliance
Inflatable liferafts; Record book of engine parameters; Diesel engine relating to air pollution control; Diesel engine relating to air pollution control; Fire pumps and its pipes; ISM
Endorsement by flagstate; Manning specified by the minimum safe manning doc; Cargo Ship Safety Equipment (including exemption); Marine Evacuation System; ISM; Muster list; Garbage shipboard handling; Stability Information Booklet; Fire safety operational booklet; Maximum hours of work or minimum hours of rest
Port-State-Control detentions.
Composite Risk
Strong, corroborated adverse evidence — a detention, sanctions exposure or an AIS-gap / behavioural signal.
A coverage-weighted blend of the single component we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.
Commercial

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