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Canadian Register of Vessels (Large Vessel)

This register applies to vessels of all types and sizes including pleasure and commercial. This type of registration is required for:

  • vessels more than 15 gross tonnes used for commercial purposes, including government-owned vessels (if unsure of tonnage, check this explanation of tonnage measurements)
  • vessels that require marine mortgages
  • if you are planning to travel outside of Canada for extended periods of time

You may also choose to register your pleasure craft in the Canadian Register of Vessels if you wish to have an approved name and port of registry for your vessel or show proof of ownership.

Small Vessel Register

This registry only applies to commercial (non-pleasure) vessels that are 15 gross tons or less.

This type of registration is required for:

  • vessels less than or equal to 15 gross tonnes used for commercial purposes with propulsion motors of 10 horsepower (7.5kW) or more (if unsure of tonnage, check this explanation of tonnage measurements)
  • commercial river rafts
  • government-owned vessels with propulsion motors of 10 horsepower (7.5kW) or more

This type of registration is not required if:

  • your vessel does not or will not have a mortgage
  • you do not wish to register an “official” name
  • you don’t intend to travel outside of Canada

Identified Business Capability Services

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About the Project

Links to our new application

Product Vision Board (in progress)

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Product Roadmap

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Overview (in progress, copied from Gate 1 Deck)

  • The program is unable to meet its services standards given the burden created by the current paper-based process therefore; at high risk of remission with the introduction of the new remission policy.
  • There is an opportunity for the Vessel Registry business line to undertake an end-to-end service design that is user-centered and driven by operational needs. This work is currently supported by an MOU signed with the CSPS.
  • MSS business lines require information collected during the Vessel registration process to manage and deliver their programs to Canadians and the Canadian industry. The management of the vessel registration program, its data, and related information are fundamental to other business processes and programs within MSS (e.g. Marine Insurance Unit, Regional Inspection programs), and within other TC groups (e.g. Navigation Protection Program and Wrecked, Abandoned, and Hazardous Vessels Act-WAHVA). However, the current registry systems are not connected to other program applications and do not provide direct access to vessel tombstone data (lack of interoperability and data-sharing capacity for end-users).
  • Vessel registration data also supports the information requirements of other government departments (i.e. DFO, CBSA, and CRA) to allow them to fulfill their mandates. However, the current registry systems do not have reporting capabilities.

Project delivery

To facilitate the process of design and development for the Vessel Registry project, we are following the UK Government methodology for Agile service delivery laid out in their Service Manual.The service manual recommends breaking down a service design project into phases:

Product Vision

What are we looking to provide, and what problems are we trying to solve?

For registrars

Fully digital

  • No need to handle paper documents
  • Ability to seamlessly work remotely
  • All tools and material Centralized

 Service request processing

  • Process payment
  • Easily see payment status (has this service been paid for?)
  • Training material
  • Legal opinions
  • Streamline processing of service requests
  • Can review and process requests, issue certificate without changing applications
  • Incorporate business rules and procedures into app to ensure consistency and reduce mental load
  • Add guidance and instructions to help with training and onboarding

Cut down administrative overhead

  • Easy to find requests

Facilitate communication with clients

  • Automatically generate correction correspondence
  • Communicate with client through application?

For internal TC staff

Enhanced tools for internal stakeholders

  • Reporting and analytics for management
  • Access to relevant data for inspectors and policy
  • Ability to flag and bring forward vessels of concern for further action
  • Link between Registry and Inspection services to easily flag issues for verification
  • Keep data up to date and correct

For clients

Submit online

  • Manage personal details and vessels
  • View status

Streamline submission process

  • Eliminate separate paper forms, simpler way to collect information
  • Fewer things to fill out
  • Dynamic digital forms based on client needs

For external partners (e.g. enforcement, search and rescue, brokers etc.)

  • Enhanced data access to facilitate operational needs
  • Ability to submit and manage requests on behalf of clients

Desired Business Outcomes

The following is a list of desired business outcomes (also shown in DOS 32801):

OUTCOME A:  Increase compliance with Government of Canada on service directives and programs

  • BO1: Reduce time to process client requests to meet 30 day service standard to meet cost recovery objectives (compliance with Service Fees Act)
  • BO2: Collect and provide the data necessary for cost recovery to meet its objectives (compliance with Service Fees Act)
  • BO3: Increase user (client) satisfaction (compliance with the Policy and Directive on Service and Digital)
  • BO4: Compliance with Government of Canada on the Directive on the business number  
OUTCOME B:  Increase Efficiency of Business Processes
  • BO5: REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF INCOMPLETE AND ERRONEOUS APPLICATIONS FROM CLIENTS
  • BO6: REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CALLS AND EMAILS CAUSED BY INTAKE INEFFICIENCIES
  • BO7: REDUCE THE NUMBER OF IRRITANTS CONTRIBUTING TO BUSINESS INEFFICIENCIES
OUTCOME C: Enable digital transformation of Vessel Registry
  • BO8: Reduce the number of systems with which internal users must interact
  • BO9: Increase adoption rate of digital channels
  • BO10:Enable interoperability of data
  • BO11:Increase ratio of automated vs manual tasks
  • BO12:Improve data quality
  • BO13:Reduce time spent on system maintenance

SMART Objectives


Key Performance Indicators (KPI)



About Vessel Registry

About the service

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Business Capabilities/Services provided

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Identified Business Capability Services

These may or may not be identified as core services – further analysisrequired.
  • Ports?
  • Vessel Management
  • Owner
  • Search
  • Mortgage
  • Fleet
  • Charterer
  • Point in Time (see MEMS, MSIS II)
    • we need to understand what this means for Point in time; we should be able to do this as a feature

System/Business Capability

These are the Core systems that maintain Vessel information and should be used as the system of record for feature sets/services.

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All systems do not implement delete?
  • Ballast Water - full CRUD; own database
    • pulls from THETIS and APCIS
    • does an update on own data if required
  • Port State is same as Ballast Water
    • Port State system of record for all foreign vessels
  • SIRS - System of Record for Domestic
  • SCVRS (Small Vessel) - System of Record
  • SRCS (Ship Registry - Large Vessel) - System of Record
    • May duplicate Port State data

Systems that use core vessel data or replicated version of vessel data

It is believed that each system implements a search capability, but only a few do a search across the core systems. The majority are only searching within their own data repository, lots a places for error and duplication here.
  • ACES - query/creat/update; has own database; MPDIS integrated with ACES
  • CPSCS-DET - query of port state
  • CPSCS-VTP - CRUD of Port State connects to Port State
  • CPSCSWQS - read Port State
  • CPSCS-INNAV - push an IMO to port database and creates a vessel traffic record (interim which eventually gets validated and links to existing - see Vessel Tracking Record
  • EPAIRS - creates records that have IMO number; no links to Port State (data integrity)
  • MEMS - read-only from Port State, SIRS, ACES, MTRB, SCVRS for vessel tombstone data and then keeps a read-only copy
  • MIUS - stores its own vessels and owners
  • MPDIS - maintains its own database
  • MSDQT - read from all core systems
  • MSIS II - read-only query for Point in Time; keeps data in own database
  • NTARS-MSDTS - query of all four core systems and the duplicates the data
  • PID - CRUD; maintains its own database

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Large Vessel Services Provided

Based on https://canadianvesselregistry.ca (3rd party) and Canadian Register of Vessels (TC) https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafety/oep-vesselreg-registration-menu-2311.htm

NOTE: Is there a difference between "transmission" and "transfer"?

Italicized entries mean I'm not sure if this belongs here.

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Historical Research of a vessel provides information from the Ship Registration Computer System Database from 1984 to present, or from microfilm if the vessel was registered prior to 1984. NOTE: In order to search information on a registered or closed vessel, we require the Official Number and/or the Vessel Name. It is impossible to do a search without this information. Please be advised this is for registered vessels only, NOT vessels licensed under the Pleasure Craft Licensing system.

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“Bare-boat Charter" means a vessel charter agreement under which the charterer has complete possession and control of the vessel, including the right to appoint its master and crew. This application must be completed and signed by the Bare-Boat Charterer who is also known as the Authorized Representative and must be qualified to bare-boat charter a vessel registered in Canada. Qualifications to own a vessel registered in Canada are set out in Section 2 of the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 under "Qualified person". The process for bare-boat charter registration must be similar in both countries – conditional/provisional registration is not permitted.

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First Registry or Re-Registry: Where the current owner(s) of a vessel are unable to provide the required or acceptable title documents (e.g. Builder's Certificate and/or Bill of Sale) for the registration or re-registration of a vessel in the Canadian Register of Vessels.

Transfer of Ownership: Where the new owner(s) of a vessel are unable to provide the required documents of title (e.g. Bill of Sale) for the transfer of ownership of a vessel registered in the Canadian Register of Vessels from the registered owner(s) and interim owner(s).

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Small Vessel Registry

Source: https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafety/oep-vesselreg-smallcomm-forms-1136.htm

Italicized entries mean I'm not sure if this belongs here.

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Form 20 (84-0166)

Form 21 (84-0180) ??

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Transfer of Ownership

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Allows change/transfer of ownership.

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Form 20 (84-0166)

Form 8 (84-0027) ??

Form 21 (84-0180) ??

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Small Vessel Renewal

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Renew Certificate of Registry.

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Form 20 (84-0166)

Form 21 (84-0180) ??

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First Registration of Government Owned Vessel

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Same as First Time Registration but for government-owned vessel.

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Form 19 (84-0177)

Form 17 (84-0046) ??

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Transfer of Ownership – Government Owned Vessel

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Same as Transfer but for government-owned vessel.

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Form 19 (84-0177)

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Renewal of Government Owned Vessel

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Same as Renewal but for government-owned vessel.

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Form 19 (84-0177)

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Statement of Qualification for Vessel Registration

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Owners of one or more vessels registered or to be registered in the Small Vessel Register are required to complete only 1 Statement of Qualification

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Form 3 (84-0002)

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Simplified Method of Tonnage Measurement

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To be used for the tonnage measurement of monohull vessels of not more than 15 metres in Tonnage Measurement Length TML), having not more than a single tier of deckhouses and/or superstructures whose total combined length does not exceed 70% of TML.

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Form 4A (85-0405)

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Tonnage Measurement of a Simple Multihull Vessel

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To be used for vessels of not more than 15 metres in Length Overall, consisting of a flat platform installed on two or more pontoon hulls and having no other spaces that could contribute to the volume of the vessel except the pontoons.

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Form 4B (85-0470)

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First Registry - Where the current owner of a vessel is unable to provide the required or acceptable document of title for the registration of a small commercial vessel.

Transfer of Ownership - Where the current owner of a vessel is unable to provide the required documents of title for the transfer of ownership of a small commercial vessel from the registered owner(s) and interim owner(s).

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Pleasure Craft Licence (no fees)

NOTE: Pleasure Craft licensing is handled by a different group than small and large vessel.

Italicized entries mean I'm not sure if this belongs here.

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New Licence

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A pleasure craft licence provides a unique identification number - commonly referred to as the "licence number" - that must be displayed on recreational vessels. A licence or registration is mandatory for all pleasure craft equipped with motors of 10 horsepower (7.5 kilowatts) or more, including personal watercraft, which are principally maintained or operated in Canada. A licence does not provide proof of ownership. Separate ownership documents should be carried on the vessel at all times.

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By mail: 84-0172; Online

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Transfer an existing licence

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When a user buys a used boat, it is their responsibility to transfer the pleasure craft licence.

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84-0172; Online

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Obtain a duplicate licence

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Obtain a duplicate licence.

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84-0172; Online

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Update of licence

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This allows a pleasure craft owner to make changes to a vessel, such as change of address or modifications

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84-0172; Online

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Cancel a licence

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Cancel a pleasure craft licence.

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84-0172; Cannot be done online

Pleasure Craft Register

Italicized entries mean I'm not sure if this belongs here.

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Printing/Reporting

This section describes the printing and reporting capabilities of Small/Large Vessel Registry.

Transcripts of Vessel

The information in a non-certified transcript is for general information only. In the event that the information is required for legal or official purposes, a certified transcript should be obtained. A certified transcript is certified/verified by a Registrar that the information is true.

NOTES:

  • Online transcript orders are not available for vessels in the Small Vessel Register
  • Assignments are not permitted in the Small Vessel Register but mortgages are permitted
  • A non-certified transcript does not reflect pending transactions that the Vessel Registration Office may have received but has not yet processed.

Certificate/replacement

A Replacement Certificate form will replace a lost or mutilated Certificate of Registry. This is for vessels that have been previously registered in the Canadian Register of Vessels or the Small Vessel Register (commercial only)

Delete Certificate?

*Not sure about this one*

Transaction List (large and small vessel)

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Alteration (notice)

Alteration (registry)

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Bareboat In (start)

Bareboat In (extension)

Bareboat In (end)

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Bareboat In (start)

Bareboat In (extension)

Bareboat In (Eend)

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Bareboat Out (start)

Bareboat Out (extension)

Bareboat Out (end)

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Bareboat Out (start)

Bareboat Out (extension)

Bareboat Out (end)

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Certificate of Registry

Certificate of Registry (batch renewal)

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Change of Address (authorized rep.)

Change of Address (mortgagee/assignee)

Change of Address (owner)

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Change of Address (authorized rep.)

Change of Address (owner)

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Change of Name (authorized rep.)

Change of Name (mortgagee/assignee)

Change of Name (owner)

Change of Name (vessel)

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Change of Name (authorized rep.)

Change of Name (owner)

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Court Injunction (new)

Court Injunction (removal)

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Certificate of Registry (replacement)

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General

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Mortgage/Assignment (discharge by state)

Mortgage/Assignment (new)

Mortgage/Assignment (transfer)

Mortgage/Assignment (discharge by origin)

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PCR (new)

PCR (replacement)

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Provisional Certificate (new)

Provisional Certificate (replacement)

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Recording (bldrs mtg/assignment)

Recording (vessel)

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Request Port Transfer

Request Port Transfer (complete)

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Registry Renewal

Renewal Certificate (print)

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Suspension

Suspension (print)

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Transcript (certified)

Transcript (uncertified)

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Transmission (bankruptcy-mortgagee/assignee)

Transmission (bankruptcy-owner)

Transmission (death-mortgagee/assignee)

Transmission (death-owner)

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Transmission (bankruptcy-owner)

Transmission (death-owner)

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Notes

  • Regardless of what solution we come up with, we need to consider document storage for completed forms and all other required supporting documents e.g. photographs, ship plans, etc.
    • Azure Storage, RDIMS, GCDocs??

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