A fee is charged and goods are released for shipping, inspection, and delivery.
Although the sanctions passed Friday tightened restrictions, the United States had hoped for more stringent penalties and for mandatory ship inspections.
The main sanctions seek to impede the nuclear industry, impose an embargo on heavy weapons sales and push for ship inspections.
The first stepped up controls in ports, tightened up procedures for ship inspections, and accelerated the timetable for eliminating single-hulled tankers.
North Korea did not react immediately, although its reclusive government has said in the past that ship inspections or other intrusive steps would be considered acts of war.
As it is now, the online Yellow Book has many bonuses for travelers: the Green Sheets, giving scores on government cruise-ship inspections, and the Blue Sheets, which update cholera, yellow fever and plague reports.
The company's pitch is basically an alternative to using expensive, professionally piloted, remotely operated vehicles for things like ship inspections and other underwater tasks.
The ship inspections, instrument recoveries, and moving and remooring of ships for the Baker test proceeded on schedule.
Member states of the Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding conducted 13,298 ship inspections in 2009, recording 86,820 deficiencies which resulted in 1,336 detentions.
Ship inspection is renowned for its hazardous and cluttered working environment.
