Vessel Registry - Understanding the Business

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Last updated: Apr 02, 2020
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REGISTRY OVERVIEW

Why must vessels be registered for vessel owners ​

  • Dictated by Canadian Shipping Act, 2001​

What must be registered ​

  • Pleasure craft ​

    • Vessels requiring marine mortgage ​

    • Vessels more than 15 GT​

    • Vessel with marine mortgage​

    • Vessel to travel outside of Canada for extended periods of time ​

    • Vessels that (wants to) bear  an approved name/ port of registry/ or show proof of ownership ​

  • Commercial vessels ​

    • Vessels more than 15 GT (including government –owned vessels) ​

    • Vessels requiring marine mortgages ​

    • Travel Outside of Canada for extended period of times  ​

    • Vessels less than 15 GT​

    • Rivercrafts ​

    • Government-owned vessels with 10 horsepower or more ​

Systems users must identify to register their vessel ​

  • Canadian Register of Vessel ​

  • Small Vessel Register​

What happens when vessel owners register a vessel ​

  • Pay fees​

  • Get exterior markings (name, port of registry)​

  • Get interior markings (official number and registered tonnage)​

​ADDITIONAL "SERVICES" RELATED TO PROVIDING VESSEL REGISTRATION /INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC 

 LICENSING VS REGISTRATION(PRE-PROD)

Canadian Shipping Act, 2001 (Part 2)

VESSEL REGISTRY (CONFLUENCE)​

  • The existing systems and current paper-based process are unable to meet its services standards and are at high risk of remission.​

  • MSS business requires information and data from Vessel Registry to be used in other systems. However, the current registry systems are not directly accessible from other systems.​

  • Other government departments like DND, CCG, DFO,RCMP,  CBSA and CRA seek data from Vessel Registry.​

  • Expected business outcome includes:​

    • Ability to manage all existing service and new service fee and service standard requirements​

    • Ability to handle large volume of vessel registration as a result of WAHVA​

    • Increased interpretability and accessibility of data to internal and external systems​

    • Decreased no. Of error and so the maintenance time​

  • Information about core systems that maintain vessel information which include SRCS, SCVRS, Port State and Ballast Water​

  • Information about the systems that use core or replicated version of vessel data which includes ACES, CPSCS-DET, CPSCS-VTP, CPSCSWQS, CPSCS-INNAV, EPAIRS,MEMS, MIUS,MPDIS, MSDQT, MSIS II, NTARS-MSDTS, PID

  • The pre-prod website developed by COMMS is guide users to find out they need to register or license and provide them with the list of forms.​

  • Services Provided by Vessel Registry are as below, user needs to fill the specific forms for each service:​

    • Large Vessel provides: Change of Address, First Time Registration, Transfer of Ownership, Change vessel name/Port of registry, Alteration to vessel's current specs, Issuance of a Deletion Certificate, Closing out, Mortgage of a vessel, Discharge of a Mortgage, Builder's Mortgage, Transmission on death/bankruptcy, Historical Research (ODATA or GraphQL feed?), Bare Boat Charter, Registry of a government owned vessel, Declaration for Marine Mortgage, Appointment of Authorized Representative and Description of Vessel Under Construction in Canada.​

    • Small Vessel provides: Change of Address, First Time Registration, Transfer of Ownership, First Time Registration of Govt. Vessel, Transfer of Ownership of Govt. Vessel, Renewal of Government Owned Vessel, Transmission on death/bankruptcy, Appointment of Authorized Representative, Registration of Commercial River Raft, Transfer of Commercial River Raft and Renewal of Commercial River Raft