Streamlining Maritime Procedures: REN (Maritime Procedures System and Electronic Register of Ships)

The Panama Maritime Authority, as part of its technological modernization plan, has carried out the necessary administrative steps to update the technological platforms used by the Panama Ship Registry.

This project seeks to unify the flag registration process between the Directorate General of Merchant Marine and the registration of the title to property deeds of the vessels in the Directorate of Public Registry of Ship Ownership.

Qualities that the new REN technology platform will have:

• Efficiency, speed and improvement in the quality of the services provided.
• Facilitates access to information.
• Ensures the confidentiality of the data.
• Automatic notification on the progress of the procedures or applications.
• Enquiries, follow-up and follow-up of procedures or applications  remotely from anywhere in the world.
• Institutional payment gateway that will allow payment by credit or debit card.
• Minimizes the requirement and handling of physical documentation within the processes.
• Application of authentication and digital security in document management, integrating the qualified electronic signature to the processes for a complete traceability of the process and the generation of documents and electronic certificates.

Source: PMA Update Bulletin in its third edition of 2023