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Reporting Obligations

Security Report via the National Single Window (NSW)

Masters of sea-going ships or their agents or Company Security Officers (CSO), who are engaged on international voyages and who are subject to the SOLAS Convention (chapter XI-2) and the ISPS Code have to submit certain security-related information (security report) via NSW

  • before calling on a German port or
  • the locks in the Kiel canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, NOK) in Brunsbüttel or Kiel-Holtenau are called upon. (see (SeeEigensichV § 10(3))

Where applicable, additional country-specific reporting requirements must also be taken into account. Further information and the reporting client can be found at

www.national-single-window.de

Please observe the notifications to mariners issued by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (VkBl_0915 dated 15/05/2015 and VkBl 1417 dated 27/06/2017).

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Exemption from the obligation to report

Ships in regular services may be exempted from the obligation to report via NSW if the following conditions are met and proven:

  • The company operating the regular services keeps and updates a list of the ships concerned, , keep it up to date and sends it in Germany to the authority responsible for the port and
  • for each voyage performed, the comapny keeps the information from the registration form for the NSW  available and ensures that this information can be sent, at any time and without delay to the BSH.

Please use this application as exemption form. You can e-mail this application form to the BSH without a signature,

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Other Security Reports directly to the Point of Contact (PoC)

All other security reports must be sent to the PoC.

Zentrale Kontaktstelle/Point of Contact (PoC)
Gemeinsames Lagezentrum See
Maritimes Sicherheitszentrum
Am Alten Hafen 2
D-27472 Cuxhaven
Telephone: + 49 (0) 30 - 185420-1700 or 1711 or 1712
Fax: + 49 (0) 4721 394852
E-mail:

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Reporting obligation when passing high-risk sea areas

All ships are recommended to use the internationally established reporting systems (MSCIO, UKMTO or MDAT-GOG). The use of a reporting system is mandatory, if security level 2 or 3 is set for the respective sea area.

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Reporting obligation for the deployment of privately contracted armed security personnel

Approval for the deployment of privately contracted armed security personnel requires the reporting to the German Point of Contact (PoC) in Cuxhaven. This applies when any sea area of security levels 2 or 3 is entered. Please use this reporting form, prepared by the German PoC.

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