The Danish Maritime Authority, Singapore and Norway have signed a cooperation agreement regarding digital certificates intending to make more countries migrate from paper certification to digital certifications which are very efficient and save time and money for both shipowners and authorities.
The Danish Maritime Authority on 24 June last year announced that from then on Danish ships were no longer to set to sea with heaps of paper certificates. Indeed, today the Danish Maritime Authority only issues digital certificates. More countries seem to follow Denmark as recently the Danish Maritime Authority concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the maritime authorities in Singapore and Norway. The MoU has been signed on the occasion of the maritime event Singapore Maritime Week and establishes the basis for the three countries’ efforts to spread the use of digital certificates.
DMA says that now it becomes possible to drastically reduce the time spent by PSC officers checking documents on board ships in ports all over the world.
The next step will be for the authorities to exchange and inspect certificates via the databases of one another rather than to do so on board the ships said the Director General Andreas Nordseth from the Danish Maritime Authority.
