We are pleased to inform you that in order to provide full-term certificates promptly to companies/ships, the full-term DOC, SMC and ISSC under the ISM Code and ISPS Code which are presently issued by Head office (Ship Management Systems Department, SMD) will be issued directly by service sites from 30 October 2017.
Full-term MLC certificate has been issued by service sites since 2013.

Please note that in case of the followings, full-term certificates are issued by Head office (SMD) as before.
1. Re-writing SMC, ISSC, and MLC certificate by changing company's name / address
2. Other special case

Short-term certificates will be issued for the ships flying flags of the states, which do not authorize ClassNK to issue full-term certificate.
(The full-term certificates are issued by the flag states.)

We also informed of the issuance of Certificate of Classification, Certificate of Installations Registration and Statutory Certificates by service sites by Technical Information (No.TEC-1132) on 22 September 2017.

(To be continued)