MARITIME MATTERS AND REPRESENTATION BEFORE PANAMANIAN MARITIME COURTS

MARITIME MATTERS

We offer our services in Vessel Registration under Panamanian Flag (procurement of navigation patents and radio licenses), change of address, proprietor and name, obtaining of certificates of Good Standing and cancellation of the Panamanian registry.  The Panama Ship Registry is distinguished by its simplicity and rapidity; every request can be completed in Panama or through the Panamanian maritime consulates around the world. 

The Statutory Navigation Patent is valid for four years for commercial vessels and two years for pleasure boats, whereas the term of duration of the Permanent Ship Radio License is of four years.  Upon expiration of these periods, the respective extensions must be requested.  We also make available our services on matters related to the inscription of naval mortgages in the Panamanian Public Registry and its cancellations. 

REPRESENTATION BEFORE PANAMANIAN MARITIME COURTS.

Our Maritime Courts have competence to know conflicts of international character.  At the same time, we have a Maritime Procedural Law that allows the prompt solution of Maritime processes.Some characteristics that distinguish our maritime process are as follows: 

1.  Oral:  in the maritime process the evidences are received by the Judge in a hearing, in which the immediacy of the judge is obtained with the corresponding evidence.

2. Procedural economy:  the Panamanian maritime process contains a wide range of regulations that allows developing the process with speed and promptness. 

3.  Outstanding notification mechanisms:  frequently, the defendant in a maritime process is domiciled outside of the Court’s jurisdiction.  In order to facilitate the notification of the maritime action to the corresponding person, our procedural law includes an outstanding system of notification.  Thus, for example, the defendant domiciled outside, to which possessions within the Panamanian jurisdiction have not been confiscated, can be notified through a lawyer domiciled in the same place of the defendant or its proxy.