The Danish Maritime Authority announced the launch of a pilot project concerning digital certificates for seafarers. The Mumbai Maersk vessel sailed on May 29 from Port of Aarhus towards destinations in Europe, Africa and Asia with crew certificates that are entirely digital instead of traditional paper certificates.
According to the Authority the digitalization of certificates is simpler, faster and safer for seafarers, shipping companies and authorities.
The pilot project has as a goal to explore the benefits of providing digital certificates to the seafarers and lead the way towards their global acceptance and utilization.
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The Mumbai Maersk vessel will make stops in port in Germany, Morocco, Singapore, China and South Korea, where it will collect data and knowledge about the use of digital certificates for seafarers in collaboration with Port State Control.
In the meantime, the Authority presented in the early days of May, the project of providing digital certificates to seafarers, noting that the latter will be able to sign-on the application through a mobile phone, where the captain and the company will have access to the data provided. In addition, both the company and the captain will be able to manage the crew and validate their compliance, while also forward data details to authorities prior to arriving in the next port.
