One click gets you an e-certificate
For ships on national voyages e-certificates were already introduced in the beginning of 2015. Now BG Verkehr offers this service to shipping companies with ships on international voyages as well – at first for Safe Manning Certificates and the other certificates will subsequently follow.
Since the beginning of July BG Verkehr has already issued over 100 Safe Manning Certificates.
One click on www.deutsche-flagge.de/en/ship-certificates and an ID Number, which will be sent to you by BG Vekehr, are all it takes to access your Safe Manning Certificate electronically. The e-certificates are fully valid. New E-Safe Manning Certificates can be applied for as of now.
The German flag has informed IMO about the new e-certificates and a model certificate has been put into the IMO data system GISIS.