Technical Notices

Panama Maritime Authority has recently updated the MMC-404.

A Pre-arrival checklist has drawn up (see ANNEX), for subject ports is prepared and its use is compulsory and shall be signed by the vessel’s Master and/or company Designated Persons Ashore (DPA).

The Pre-arrival checklist must be sent one hundred and twenty hours (120hrs) before the vessel arrival, to the following email address: prearrival@amp.gob.pa.

For voyages with lasts less than 96 hours (96hrs), the Pre-arrival checklist must be sent at least twenty-four hours (24hrs) before arrival at port.

If an extraordinariness issues, such as equipment failures or any other situations that cannot be resolve on board of the vessel immediately; Ship-Owners, operators, shall immediately coordinate the correction action plan, timelines and risk assessments together with the vessel Recognized Organization and Segumar Offices.