For the purpose of reducing the administrative burden on stakeholders caused by the reliance on traditional paper certificates, and promoting the efficiencies of ship-ship/ ship-shore information exchange and related formalities, please be kindly notified that CCS will provide electronic certificate and document service to ships.
1 Electronic certificate
The electronic certificate issued by CCS is equally authentic as the hard copy, which is in compliance with the requirements of the Guidelines for the use of electronic certificates.
CCS is authorized to issue electronic certificates on behalf of flag States.
List of authorized flag States
Ship managers or operators may request the CCS local branch office to issue the electronic certificates for all their ships, or request CCS to issue the electronic certificates during the survey or audit of their ships.
Please refer to the Customer Guidance to understand the related operations.
Notice shall be kept on board with electronic certificates and made available to stakeholders.
2 Electronic documents
Please refer to the Customer Guidance to understand the related operations.
Notice shall be kept on board with electronic documents and made available to stakeholders.
3、Service Suppliers
CCS will provide electronic approval certificate service to service suppliers since November 15th, 2021:
Please refer to the Customer Guidance to understand the related operations.
4、Electronic invoice