China-Singapore Online, May 20 (Wang Zitao) On May 20, the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration's office in the Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone was established on the Lingang New Area Management Committee. At the unveiling ceremony, the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration announced the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration's decision to decentralize and adjust 36 administrative law enforcement powers to the Yangshan Port Maritime Safety Administration, and promote the "regional affairs, regional affairs" of the maritime business in the new area of Lingang.
The Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration established the "New Area Office" to provide a strong maritime service guarantee for the construction of new areas with high standards and high quality, and to accelerate the creation of special economic functions that are more influential and competitive in the international market. The focus of this delegation of authority is mainly to gradually promote the registration of the international ship registration of the "China Yangshan Port", and strive for the pilot reform of the seafarers ’expatriate organization in the new area, and gradually implement the" separation of licenses "in the audit of the safety management system of shipping companies. Facilitate the port and shipping units and crew of the new zone to go through the relevant certificates and declaration procedures nearby.
Among the 36 administrative law enforcement powers that have been decentralized and adjusted, they include "Approval of Delineated Safe Operating Areas in Coastal Waters", "Issuance of Seafarer's Certificates", "Large-scale Facilities, Mobile Platforms, Examination and Approval of Water Towing of Over-limit Objects," and "Living Underwater Activities" Administrative approvals, "ship ownership registration", "bare ship charter registration", "issuance of crew training certification" and other administrative confirmations, "recording of the receipt and treatment of ship pollutants" "ship owner, operator or manager to prevent and control the ship and its "Administrative filing for emergency plans for pollution of the marine environment related to operational activities" and other administrative powers. Previously, these businesses could only be handled at the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration Center, which was extremely inconvenient for some companies, ships, and crews in the new port area where the registration place or main place of business was located. The consumption of manpower, material resources, and time costs directly led to economic costs Increase. The decentralization of administrative law enforcement will maximize the convenience of the administrative counterparts in the new area.
Xie Kaiyun, deputy director of the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration and director of the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration in China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, said that decentralization and adjustment of law enforcement authority is the initial work of the establishment of the office. The next step is to promote the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration. The construction of the Lingang New Area will also be strengthened. One is to shorten the deadline for the administrative approval of the new area; the second is to implement the new area ’s commitment to inform matters; the third is to further reduce taxation and supplements; The new area will be piloted first; the fifth is to promote the implementation of a more convenient "China Yangshan Port" international ship registration management system to further optimize the ship registration workflow.
Liu Qing, deputy director of the Maritime Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, Wu Wei, full-time deputy director of the Administrative Committee of the Lingang New Area of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, Xiao Yuehua, director of the Shanghai Maritime Bureau, Wu Hongbing, deputy director, and Xie Kaiyun attended the unveiling ceremony. (Finish)