About Us - Vital/Core Functions and Sectoral Coverages
Promotional & Developmental Functions

  • Formulates and adopt plans, programs, policies, rules and regulations for the promotion and development of the Philippine maritime industry; Promotes the competitiveness of the Philippine maritime industry in the local and global market;
  • Promotes and facilitates investment opportunities in the maritime industry;
  • Implements and enforces international conventions and national maritime laws, rules and regulations and standards on safety, security, training, service, among others;
  • Provides effective transparent and efficient delivery of public service that includes, but not limited to, further streamlining of application procedures and requirements, rationalized standard processing time, and formulation, adoption and implementation of an information technology strategy pursuant to the e-commerce law.


Supervisory/Regulatory Functions

Controls, regulates and supervises Philippine-registered overseas and domestic ships, maritime manpower, shipyards and other maritime entities through the evaluation/processing of applications covering the four (4) major maritime sectors, namely:
(a) domestic shipping sector, including maritime safety,
(b) overseas shipping sector,
(c) maritime manpower sector and
(d) shipbuilding ang ship repair sector.


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