The new AMP contract is aimed at the Cypriot company

Scandals of irregularities and mismanagement from the Maritime Administration of Panama (AMP) there is no end to them in this administration in charge of Noriel Araúz.

Direct contracts with companies of close friends, complaints of extortion ship owners, data modification for the registration of ships and the worst decline in the Panamanian ship registry, are part of the scandals that institution suffered during this administration.

All these affairs keep the maritime industry on red alert and in the midst of ongoing court proceedings Supreme Court of Justice.

Even in the last year of this government, the Araúza administration holds in eye of the storm for AMP with decisions favoring already determined jobs.

Araúz, through its director Gente de Mar, Juan Maltez, issued circular N. DGGM-038 which obliges all AMP-authorized maritime training centers to pay between $5 and $20 for each certificate they have or will issue at the request of sailors working on 8,653 Panamanian-flagged ships.

This job represents more of 6 million dollars year. All this money must be deposited directly in favor of a company dedicated to an external online database service, which will concentrate all information on sailors who board Panamanian-flagged ships.

But official sources revealed that everything is requirements that AMP founded last April to sign up as a third-party provider of database software that would be tailored to a predetermined company.’

twenty

dollars must be paid by the new company for each certificate issued to seafarers of foreign nationality.

5

dollars corresponds to the payment of the fee that the training centers must pay to AMP for each certificate.

Until today only company Electi DLT Limited, registered in Cyprus On March 18, 2021, filed to become the first online data storage provider for AMP and monopolize created business.

Electi DLT Limited turned exactly two years old in March of this year. Exactly one month before AMP he made the decision to start a new business and set two years of experience as a prerequisite.

An AMP has been established that companies wishing to be suppliers must present “certificates that they have a minimum of two years of experience in providing database software services to government bodies or private companies in the maritime sector”.

Even AMP admin ensure that the company’s billing is immediate. In the payment formula, the supplying company software also gains the most.

The resolution obliges training centers to pay the new rate as soon as the first provider is authorized to provide an external online database software service that enables the validation of certificates issued by training centers. training for every sailor on a Panamanian-flagged ship.

In the payment formula, the company providing the software also gets the most. Resolution no. DGGM-038 provides that the training centers must pay this new company a fee not to exceed $20 for each certificate issued to seamen of foreign nationality.

Of this amount, only $5 corresponds to the payment of the fee he must pay AMP training for each certification.