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

These may are my not be identified as core services – further analysis required.

• 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.

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

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.

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.

Transaction List (large vs small vessel)

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.

Pleasure Craft Register

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

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*

General 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??