Reforming the Coast Guard’s Certificate of Compliance Program for Liquefied Gas Carriers: Promoting Efficient Implementation and Safety Effectiveness

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and Transportation Research Board and Consensus and Advisory Studies and Committee on Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Coast Guard Certificate of Compliance Examination Program for Gas Carriers

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Synopsis: As liquefied gas exports from U.S. ports have grown rapidly in recent years, reforms are needed to a U.S. Coast Guard program that examines liquefied gas carriers (LGCs). Going forward, this growth in LGC exports and arrivals is likely to increase the demand for gas carrier exams by Coast Guard marine inspectors, of which there is a chronic shortage. TRB Special Report 350: Reforming the Coast Guard’s Certificate of Compliance Program for Liquefied Gas Carriers: Promoting Efficient Implementation and Safety Effectiveness from the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, was requested by Congress out of concern for the Coast Guard’s ability to examine the increasing number of foreign tank ships that load liquefied gas for transport overseas. The National Academies’ committee concluded that the time is right for Congress to revisit the Certificate of Compliance program’s requirements mandating the frequency of exams and to allow the Coast Guard greater flexibility to decide when and how to examine individual LGCs using indicators of risk.