The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism actually targeted passenger ships nationwide based on the fact that the government passed the ship inspection despite the inadequate communication equipment of the ship in the accident where the tourist ship sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido. We have decided to strengthen the check of communication equipment, such as letting the ship sail and checking whether it can communicate reliably with the land.
In the accident where the tourist ship "KAZU 1" sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula, killing 14 people and missing 12 people, the ship's communication equipment was a mobile phone with an area where radio waves could not reach. Regardless, it became clear that it had passed the ship inspection.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has acknowledged that ship inspections may have been inadequate, and has decided to strengthen checks on ship communication equipment in the current emergency safety inspections for passenger ship operators nationwide. Hardened.
Specifically, if the communication equipment is a mobile phone, check the "call area map" published by the mobile phone company to see if there is a "dead zone" where radio waves do not reach, and actually navigate the ship. I will check if it can communicate reliably with the land.
Regarding safety measures for small vessels, discussions on improving the effectiveness of vessel inspections are expected to begin at the national committee meeting held on the 11th.