Liberia-flag vessel detentions
6 detentions of vessels flying the Liberia flag. Each report covers the full VesselScore due diligence record including inspection history, ownership chain, and risk scoring.
BIG GEORGE (IMO 9142942) detained at Tianjin, October 2026
The 29-year-old container ship BIG GEORGE has been detained at Tianjin for the second time in eight months, following a deteriorating inspection record that has seen deficiency counts surge since late 2024. The vessel's ISM manager changed in January 2025, just weeks before its first detention in Dalian, and the ship has accumulated 13 initial inspections across Chinese and Korean ports in under two years.
MSC PALATIUM III (IMO 9336165) detained at Shenzhen, October 2026
The 2,500-TEU container ship MSC PALATIUM III was detained at Shenzhen on 8 October 2026 under Chinese port state control. The detention is notable because the vessel's available PSC inspection history is entirely blank, meaning this is the first recorded detention in a record that contains no prior inspections at all, yet the ship carries a prior very serious marine casualty and a hull condition score flagged for significant degradation.
POLARIS MILA (IMO 9289908) detained at Ulsan, October 2026
The 20-year-old pure car and truck carrier was detained by Korean port state control at Ulsan on 7 October 2026, only nine months after a wholesale change of ownership, commercial management, and ISM management. The vessel had passed 48 of its previous 49 PSC inspections without detention, with the sole prior detention recorded in Brisbane more than eight years ago, making this an unusual event for a ship with an otherwise clean record but one that coincides with significant management turnover.
SHU GUANG (IMO 9615377) detained at Nakhodka, October 2026
The Liberian-flagged bulker SHU GUANG was detained at Nakhodka, Russia, on 5 October 2026, just two weeks after a wholesale change of ownership and management. This is the vessel's fourth PSC detention overall and her third in under twelve months, a dramatic deterioration for a ship that went the first seven years of its life without a single detention.
OCEAN DIAMOND (IMO 9465162) detained at Gent, October 2026
The Liberia-flagged bulk carrier Ocean Diamond has been detained in the Belgian port of Gent on 1 October 2026, marking its first recorded detention in over 13 years of service and across 40 prior port state control inspections. The vessel's spotless detention record makes this a notable event, though a turbulent ISM management history, with six changes in nine years, has long been the vessel's most conspicuous risk factor.
INTENSITY (IMO 1078054) detained at Vancouver, September 2026
The newbuild bulk carrier Intensity was detained in Vancouver on 28 September 2026, less than a month after delivery. With no prior PSC inspection history and a management team that took the vessel on only weeks earlier, this is a brand-new ship's first encounter with port state control, and it did not go well.
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