GENERAL POLAD HASHIMOV (IMO 9575307) detained at Constanta, October 2026
The Bahamas-flagged chemical/oil products tanker GENERAL POLAD HASHIMOV was detained by Romanian authorities at Constanta on 13 October 2026, marking the vessel's third detention in a 15-year career and its first under current ship manager Spring Marine Denizcilik. The detention follows a year of elevated deficiency counts and comes just three months after the vessel switched to Bahamas flag, completing a pattern of five flag changes since delivery.
VesselScore generates due diligence reports on any vessel in the world fleet.
Request accessThe detention
GENERAL POLAD HASHIMOV was detained at Constanta, Romania, on 13 October 2026. The vessel's THETIS record does not yet disclose the number or nature of the deficiencies cited by the Romanian Naval Authority. Constanta is familiar territory for this ship; the Romanian authority last inspected her there in August 2024, an expanded inspection that found four deficiencies but did not result in detention. This time, the outcome was different.
The vessel
GENERAL POLAD HASHIMOV is a 7,103 dwt chemical/oil products tanker built in 2011 at Besiktas Shipyard in Altinova, Turkey. She measures 139.95 metres LOA with a beam of 16.6 metres, and her gross tonnage is 4,684. The vessel is powered by a four-stroke diesel engine. She currently flies the Bahamas flag, having reflagged from Liberia in July 2026. Classification sits with Bureau Veritas, which took over from the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping in April 2022. The vessel was originally delivered as CAPTAIN NAGDALIYEV, renamed to her current identity in April 2022 at the same time as the class and flag changes.
Inspection history
The vessel's PSC record spans 30 inspections across three MoU regimes since May 2011: 12 under Paris MoU, 10 under Black Sea MoU, and eight under Mediterranean MoU. Prior to the current detention, she had been detained twice: at Seville by Spanish authorities in February 2019 (13 deficiencies) and at Venice by the Italian Coast Guard in May 2022 (eight deficiencies). The record shows a marked deterioration in deficiency counts over the past 18 months. An inspection at Pivdennyi, Ukraine, in June 2025 produced 15 deficiencies, the highest single count in the vessel's history. Subsequent inspections at Elefsis, Greece, in September and December 2025 found five and seven deficiencies respectively. A further inspection at Izmail in March 2026 recorded two deficiencies, covering emergency lighting and lifeboats. Across all 30 inspections, the vessel has accumulated 93 deficiencies, yielding a career average of 3.1 deficiencies per inspection. That average is dragged down by a string of clean or low-deficiency inspections between 2015 and 2020. The recent trend tells a different story: six inspections since mid-2024 have produced a combined 40 deficiencies, an average of 6.7 per call. The earlier part of the record, from 2011 through 2020, was largely unremarkable, with multiple zero-deficiency inspections and only the single 2019 detention in Seville.
Ownership and management
The registered owner is Armada Voyager Two Co Ltd, which has held the vessel since delivery in March 2011. ISM management has been held by Palmali Gemicilik ve Acentelik for most of the vessel's life, though with interruptions. Palmali managed the vessel from delivery, briefly gave way to Palmali Co Ltd (a related entity) between March 2012 and March 2015, returned, then dropped to an unknown ISM manager in March 2022 before resuming the ISM role in October 2022. That gap coincides with the vessel's class transfer from Russian Maritime Register of Shipping to Bureau Veritas and the reflagging from an unknown state to Liberia, both in April 2022. Ship management and commercial management were also held by Palmali from delivery until January 2025, when Spring Marine Denizcilik, a Turkish operator with a fleet of 17 vessels, took over those roles. The two companies share the same building in Besiktas, Istanbul, at the Maya Sitesi complex. The management timeline reveals considerable churn: at least seven ISM manager entries and two ship manager entries since 2011, contributing to the vessel's elevated manager churn score. Spring Marine Denizcilik has now been ship manager for less than 10 months. This detention is the first under its watch.
Risk profile
VesselScore rates GENERAL POLAD HASHIMOV at 39.8 out of 100, placing her in the high-risk band with a modelled detention probability of 8.5%. Every scored component contributes to the elevated risk. Deficiency rate scores the maximum 15 out of 15 points, reflecting the sustained accumulation of deficiencies across the inspection record. Prior detentions account for 12.5 out of 20 points, and the severity mix of those deficiencies adds another 6.7 out of 10. Manager churn scores 10 out of 15, driven by the multiple ISM manager changes and the recent ship manager transition. The flag and class component is fully scored at 10 out of 10; the vessel has changed flag five times and class twice, with the most recent flag change to Bahamas occurring as recently as July 2026. Age baseline contributes 6 out of 10, consistent with a 15-year-old tanker. The vessel is not in the EU MRV dataset, so fuel efficiency and hull condition components are unscored. AIS behaviour and sanctions screening are clear, and there are no recorded casualties.
What to watch
The immediate question is the nature and count of deficiencies once THETIS publishes the full inspection report. Given the spike in deficiency volumes over the past 18 months, charterers should request the release conditions and any class-imposed requirements before fixing. The vessel's July 2026 reflagging to Bahamas is very recent; Bahamas is a Paris MoU white-list flag, but the timing, so soon before detention, warrants verification that all flag-state certificates were current. The on-file certificates in the report all date from 2016 and 2017, with expiry dates in 2020 and 2021, meaning they should have been renewed but the report does not reflect updated versions. Any counterparty considering this vessel should confirm certificate currency directly with Bureau Veritas and the Bahamas Maritime Authority. The transition from Palmali to Spring Marine Denizcilik as ship manager is less than a year old; the next inspection result will be an important signal of whether that change has improved operational standards.
Due diligence on any vessel in the world fleet
VesselScore generates due diligence reports covering sanctions screening, full PSC history, ownership chain, market valuation, classification and flag history, AIS tracking, and much more.
Every PSC detention, every Monday
Free weekly digest: every vessel detained by port state control in the past 7 days, with risk scores and analysis.