1. INTRODUCTION

We, International Ship Registry of Cambodia (ISROC), has been officially authorized as new exclusive Cambodia Flag Administration from Royal Government of Cambodia through governmental contract on January 3rd 2003, with Cambodia govemment’s object and policy to upgrade present Cambodia ship Registry into International standard such as other famous FOC & Open Registries. With official authorization as exclusive Cambodia flag administration, we grandly relaunched new Cambodia ship registration system from February 28, 2003.

ISROC will always devote utmost endeavors to offer ship owners with speedy and professional and convenient Cambodia ship registration services for ship’s safe operation and protection based on long time accumulated competent knowledge & affluent experience in this ship registration field and world-wide organic network system.

Simultaneously, through our ISROC who cherishes ship owner’s time as most precious thing, we sincerely hope all ship owners in the world can grasp good chance to easily experience our perfect and speedy registration service to fully meet all expectation & requirements with satisfactory gratification.

Freely come and grasp the success with ISROC.

2. ADVANTAGE

ISROC offers following attractive advantage & affluent choices to ship owners.

(1) D.R NETWORK REGISTRATION SYSTEM For full satisfaction to ship owners with speed & systemic registration process, ISROC appointed high qualified Deputy Registrars at each important country in the world. Through this worldwide D.R. network system newly introduced by ISROC, ship owners can enjoy much swifter & more convenient registration service, by directly contacting nearly located D.R gate or directly ISROC.

(2) R.O NETWORK SURVEY SYSTEM Recognized Organization (R.O.) network survey system newly introduced for more swift survey service for registered vessels & for improvement of Cambodia flag standard will assist ship owners to enjoy more swift survey service through R.O (regular IACS & private survey companies) authorized by ISROC.

(3) GOVERNMENTAL FLAG INSPECTION (GFI) SYSTEM Appointed GFI inspectors from ISROC as Flag Administration level can help owners to prevent PSC detention, by making all possible deficiencies pointed & pre-rectified in advance. Also there is no additional fee for GFI to owners, so it will offer good profit to save required fee for her good maintenance condition.

(4) NO RESTRICTION (NATIONALITY & TONNAGE) ISROC operates registration system with no restriction on ship owner’s nationality & ship’s tonnage and crew, as long as exact detail on ship & its ownership is clarified to ISROC. But, in case of registration of vessels which are intended/recorded into criminal involvement with illegitime activities such as drug trafficking, illegal weapon smuggling, illegal immigrant, etc, ship registration shall be definitely unaccepted.

(5) COMPETITIVE REGISTRATION FEE Very reasonable registration fee which is not more expensive or not much cheaper than other flags will offer full satisfaction to ship owners who have felt economic burden in ship’s safe operation and maintenance fee.

(6) PROTECTION OF SHIP OWNER Through Cambodia govemmental security, Cambodia flagged vessels are protected not to be recalled or requisitioned as Cambodia national resources under any circumstances, and are not laid at any disadvantage and loss.

(7) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & SPEEDY PROCESS Through high qualified professional registration service & speedy work process, provisional registration can be proceeded within short time from application date, as long as complete application document submission is is clearly confirmed to ISROC.

(8) MOST-FAVORED NATION CONVENTION Most – favored nation convention established between Cambodia and Russia & China makes mutual cooperative diplomatic relationship more enhanced than previous time.

3. REGISTRATION BUSINESS

Ship Registration

1. Provisional Registration (Valid: 6 months)
2. Permanent Registration (Valid: 5 years, MSMC/RSL- 1 year)
3. Special Registration (Valid: 3 months)
4. Registration for fish carrier (refrigerated & non- refrigerated) & fish processing factory; Ship owner should submit the notarized declaration certifying the vessel does not Involve with any illegal fishing & illegal carriage of caught fish.
5. Yacht Registration

Bareboat Charter Registration (BBBC In)
Temporary Close of Registry (BBC Out)
Mortgage

1. Mortgage Registration / Transfer / Amendment
2. Mortgage Discharge

Ownership change (Re-registration)
Particular Change (Change of Ship’s Name/Tonnage/Type/Dimension)
Issuance of COE & Other related registry certs
Deletion (De-Registration)

4. R.O AUTHORIZED BY ISROC

So as to offer more affluent choices to ship owners for registered vessels’ safety surveys and issuance of statutory certificates at ship owners’ convenient location, ISROC officially authorized following selected survey entities as Recognized Organization (R.O.) to perform ship’s safety survey and issue tradingcertificates for registered vessels under Cambodia flag:

• American Bureau of Shipping(ABS)
• Bureau Veritas (BV)
• China Classification Society (CCS)
• Class NK (Nippon Kaiji Kyokai) (NK)
• Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
• Germanischer Lioyd (GL)
• Korean Register of Shipping (KR)
• Lioyd’s Register of Shipping (LR)
• Registro Italiano Navale (RINA)
• Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RMRS)
• Global Marine Bureau Inc. (GMB)
• The International Naval Surveys Bureau (INSB)

5. REGISTRATION FEES

Registration Tariffs can be offered upon registration application.

6. REGULAR REGISTRATION

In accordance with The Registration of Merchant Shipping Act, 1994 and amendments thereto, a provisional registration is valid for six months. For regular / provisional registration before permanent registration, the ship owners or his representatives are expected to submit following documents.

• Registration Application form
• MSMC Application form
• RSL Application form
• General Information of applicant & owner & company responsible for operation
• Previous Reg. Cert copy & ITC copy & SR copy
• Notarized Bill of Sale & Acceptance of Sale
• Good Standing cert copy of ship owner
• AAIC confirmation responsible for radio account
• IMO number (applied to more than 100GRT ship)
• Previous DOC & SMC Copy (only in case of over 500GRT)
• Valid Seaworthiness cert copy issued by Recognized Organization : RO (IACS & Non IACS) authorized ISROC is required (it is applicable oly in case of over 25 years old ship)*
• Survey confirmation certifying which RO will carry out survey on ship for statutory cert issuance.

In case of Registration of fish carrier (refrigerated & non-refrigerated) & fish processing factory, Ship owner should submit the notarized declaration certifying the vessel does not involve with any illegal fishing & illegal carriage of caught fish.

7. PERMANENT REGISTRATION (valid : Reg: 5 yrs, MSMC/RSL:1yr)

Permanent Registration is valid for five years (in case of MSMC/RSL, valid : one year) and can be effected immediately, if all the following required original documents have been submitted to ISROC during or before the end of provisional registration period.

• Note requesting permanent registration from SO
• All original Application documents submitted for provisional registration
• Deletion certificate original from previous registry (In case of not English form, it should be translated in English and public notarized.)
• AAIC confirmation letter certifying no outstanding of Radio Account
• Valid Statutory cert copy (ITC/SR), Valid DOC & SMC cert copy issued by RO

8. SPECIAL REGISTRATION (valid : 3 months)

ISROC also accepts vessels to be registered for a short period (validity : three months) under special circumstances such as non-commercial trading or scrapping purpose. ISROC’s procedures allow special registration certificate to be issued with a validity of three months, if the following documents are completely submitted to ISROC. And, when validity of three months is ended, the special registration shall be automatically annulled and invalid. This special status does not entitle the vessel to a Deletion Certificate, except special registration done for scrapping purpose (but in this case, the deletion cert of previous registry should be submitted to ISROC.

• Registration Application form
• MSMC Application form
• RSL Application form
• General Information of applicant & owner & company responsible for operation
• Previous Reg. Cert copy & ITC copy & SR copy
• Notarized Bill of Sale & Acceptance of Sale
• only in case of new construction ship, Notarized builder’s cert in stead of Bill of Sale
• Good Standing cert copy of ship owner
• Intended Voyage Confirmation
• Affidavit certifying non-commercial trade only
• valid Seaworthiness cert copy issued by Recognized Organization : RO (IACS & Non IACS) authorized ISROC is required (it is applicable oly in case of over 25 years old ship)*
• Notarized Scrapping contract original (only in case of deletion cert for scrapping purpose)

9. BBC IN/OUT

Bareboat Charter Registration (BBC In /Out)
Foreign vessels can be registered under Cambodia flag as a second flag (“Charter in”) through ISROC under the duration of a bareboat charter party agreement provided that the first flag grants its letter of consent for registration into Cambodia flag. Upon submission of an notarized BBC agreement and the letter of consent original from first flag and the corresponding fees including 2 years annual taxes, BBC registration certificate and RSL and MSMC cert (valid : maximum 2 years) will be issued.

A vessel registered under Cambodia flag through ISROC can obtain an equivalent registration in another flag without affecting its status in Cambodia (Charter Out) based on a charter party. the applicant shall submit a formal application giving full details of the bareboat charter party . If all application documents for BBC out are submitted to ISROC with 2 years annual taxes payment , then ISROC issue the letter of consent (valid : maximum 2 years) for BBC out registration into other flag.
For this purpose of BBC In/Out registration, formal application documentation which ship owners or representatives are expected to submit to ISROC is as follows.

BBC In Registration (Maximum : 2 years)

• Note requesting BBC In Registration
• Registration Application form
• MSMC Application form
• RSL Application form
• General Information of applicant & owner & company responsible for operation
• Notarized BBC agreement
• First flag’s Letter of Consent original for registry into Cambodia flag.
• Good Standing cert copy of ship owner
• Present Registry cert / ITC/ SR copy
• valid Seaworthiness cert copy issued by Recognized Organization : RO (IACS & Non IACS) authorized ISROC is required (it is applicable oly in case of over 25 years old ship)*
• previous DOC & SMC Copy (in case of over 500GRT)
• AAIC confirmation
• Survey confirmation certifying which RO will carry out survey on ship for statutory cert issuance.

BBC Out Registration (Maximum : 2 years)

• Note requesting BBC out Registration
• Notarized BBC agreement

10. MORTAGE

(Mortgage Registration / Discharge)
In case of mortgage registration, it will be proceeded only in the state of permanent registration, and for mortgage registration / cancellation, ship owners & representatives are expected to submit the following application documentation.

Mortgage Registration

• Application form for Mortgage (Mortgage Deed) notarized original
• Mortgage Contract notarized original

Mortgage Discharge

• Application form for Mortgage (Mortgage Deed) notarized original
• Mortgage Discharge Contract Notarized