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The US Coast Guard issued Port Security Advisory 4-08 stating that, effective April 18, it will impose conditions of entry on vessels arriving from Cuba. Any vessel arriving in the United States that called in Cuba during its previous five port calls must demonstrate the following:

(1) that it implemented measures in accordance with the ship’s security plan equivalent to Security Level 2;
(2) that each access point to the vessel was guarded and that the guards had total visibility of the exterior to the ship while in the Cuban port;
(3) that it attempted to execute a Declaration of Security;
(4) that it logged all security actions in the ship’s log;
(5) that it reported such actions to the USCG Captain of the Port (COTP) prior to arrival in the United States;
and (6) that each access point to the vessel is guarded and that the guards have total visibility of the exterior to the ship during US port calls.

Note: Similar conditions of entry have been imposed on ships arriving in the United States from Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran, Liberia, Mauritania, and Syria.

Note: This Advisory may be more symbolic than real, because ships that have called in Cuba are banned from calling in the United States for 180 days.

Note: This advisory was previously published in the Federal Register.

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