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The concierge service helps maritime businesses to interact with government departments.
Understand how you can pay tonnage tax if you manage your ships from the UK and they weigh 100 tons or more.
The weekly shipping indicators dataset associated with the Faster Indicators of UK economic activity research output.
Guidance for UK financial sanctions in relation to maritime shipping
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Find out about other simplifications you can apply for with consignor or consignee status.
Find out how to qualify for drawback and what you'll need to do to make a claim on duty you have already paid.
Use form C208 to list outgoing aircraft stores that you're removing from a warehouse.
Use this form for ship supplies declarations for goods from the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland destined for ships leaving Great Britain.
UK and international codes and standards for vessel stability and loadlines, safety advice and regulations for boatmasters, designers or shipbuilders dealing with vessel stability.
This MGN provide guidance on certain aspects of the Merchant Shipping (Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments) Regulations 2022 (SI 2022/737).
The processes that operators need to follow when shipping radioactive sources to and from EU countries.
Life-saving and fire-fighting equipment that ships must carry and how to maintain and service it.
Construction, radio and marine equipment standards for merchant ships and special shipping.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
If you’re the ship's master (or their agent) of a commercial vessel, you will need to report any goods that are arriving on your vessel at a UK port.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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