The Maritime Authority of Panama (AMP), reported that it issued the order to proceed to implement a new technological platform for the registration of ships with the intention of optimizing processes and facilitating access to information.

The new technological platform that will use the Panamanian Ship Registry, is called the Maritime Procedures System and Electronic Ship Registry (REN), which involves reengineering and optimization of processes.

REN will also allow the establishment of new management capabilities for users, facilitate access to information, ensure the confidentiality of data, increase efficiency and speed in the services provided and provide the required computer security, all this designed according to the best practices of the industry.

Sources from the entity reported that the new platform may be operational in the next 12 months. This project seeks to design and implement a new technological system that replaces the current management systems used for the flagging processes before the General Directorate of Merchant Marine and registration of property titles and encumbrances before the General Directorate of Public Registry of Ship Property.

According to the AMP, some of the functionalities that the new technological platform of the Registry of Ships of Panama will have are the following:

• Make it easier for our national and foreign users to carry out procedures, making available a web platform that allows the consultation, monitoring and presentation of procedures or applications remotely, from anywhere in the world.

• Provide our users with a secure and electronic means for the payment of their procedures through credit or debit cards, through the implementation of the Institutional Payment Gateway, for which an agreement was made with the Panama Savings Bank and was coordinated with the Government Innovation Authority (AIG).

• Improve the quality in the management and attention of the procedures, through the definition and implementation of business rules and performance controls, for the access points and interoperability of the system.

• Minimize the requirement and handling of physical documents within the processes, through the application of authentication and digital security technologies in document management, integrating the qualified electronic signature into the processes for complete traceability of the procedure and the generation of electronic documents and certificates.

• Maximize the use of technological support tools for the management, review, approval and registration of interconnected procedures and procedures before both General Directorates.

Another of the outstanding aspects of this project is the purification and unification of the databases, currently the data corresponding to our National Merchant Navy are maintained in different data systems, which do not interact with each other and sometimes are not congruent with each other, so it is proposed to establish a single data model with an approved and standardized vision, applying best practices and data interoperability standards of global marketing of the Ship Registry of Panama.

In that sense, the Maritime Authority of Panama carried out the public tender act for the Maritime Procedures System and Electronic Registry of Ships (REN), on July 19, 2022, being awarded to the consortium “Accidental Association of Maritime Registry Modernization”, formed by the companies Cable & Wireless Panamá, S.A. and Futuver Panamá, S.A and this contractual relationship was endorsed by the Office