Angel Valdes | June 6, 2023
The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP), as part of its technological modernization plan, carried out the necessary administrative steps to update the technological platforms used by the Panama Ship Registry.
This project seeks to design and implement a new technological system that replaces the current management systems used for registration processes before the General Directorate of Merchant Marine and registration of property titles and encumbrances before the General Directorate of Public Registry of Ship Ownership. .
The new technological platform that the Panama Ship Registry will use, called the Maritime Procedures System and Electronic Ship Registry (REN), involves reengineering and optimizing processes, as well as establishing new management capabilities for users, facilitating the access to information, ensure the confidentiality of data, increase efficiency and speed in the services provided and provide the required computer security, all designed under the best practices in the industry.
Some of the functionalities that the new technological platform of the Panama Ship Registry will have are the following:
Facilitate our national and foreign users to carry out procedures, making available a web platform that allows consultation, monitoring and presentation of procedures or applications remotely, from anywhere in the world.
Provide our users with a safe and electronic means to pay for 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 of the management and attention to 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 to the processes for a complete traceability of the process and the generation of documents and electronic certificates.
Maximize the use of technological support tools for the management, review, approval and registration of procedures and interconnected 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 Marine are kept in different data systems, which do not interact with each other and are sometimes not consistent. with each other, for which reason it is proposed to establish a single data model with an approved and standardized vision, applying best practices and data interoperability standards of global application, from the vision of a single process, allowing access to statistical data that facilitates decision-making and marketing of the Panama Ship Registry.
In this sense, the Panama Maritime Authority held the public tender for the System of Maritime Procedures and Electronic Ship Registry (REN), on July 19, 2022, being awarded to the consortium “Accidental Association of Maritime Registry Modernization”, formed by the companies Cable & Wireless Panamá, SA and Futuver Panamá, SA and said contractual relationship was endorsed by the Comptroller General of the Nation.
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the order to proceed was delivered and the production of this new technological platform is expected in a period of 12 months.
