QUALITAS REGISTER OF SHIPPING

QUALITAS BUREAU is a diversified Inspection Services company formed by marine engineers, ship’s officers and other technical staff committed to providing the international market with reliable surveying services, while protecting human life, property and environment.

A Recognized Organization (RO), Recorgnized Security Organization (RSO) and a Classification Society (CS) authorized to offer class & statutory certificates and services on behalf of flag states under mandatory rules and regulations stablished by the International Maritime Organization and National Regulations.
QUALITAS BUAREU is also a leader in marine inspection, technical services and consulting services for the maritime industry.

Qualitas Register of Shipping (QRS), is a Recognized Organization (RO), Recognized Security Organization (RSO) and Classification Society (CS) authorized to offer statutory/class certification and services.
QRS is carrying out surveys and issue statutory certificates for the following flags:

MISSION

To bring economic value to costumers through quality, health, safety, environment and Social responsability of their assets, products and systems, resulting in risk reduction and performance improvement.

To maintain the highest quality standards while safeguarding human life at sea and protecting marine environment for the benefit of the world.

To raise the professional standards and the international maritime image of the Republic of Panama, offering honest and high quality service.

VISION

To Promote and fulfill the standards established by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and other regulatory bodies.

To be a leader in developing a better quality of life at sea, through the implementation of safety and health standard.

To motivate a maritime world with fewer accidents and free of substandard ships.

We feel that we can serve to influence a more environmentally conscious maritime sector.

To carry out the instructions delegations which have been granted to us.

QUALITY POLICY

- QUALITAS REGISTER OF SHIPPING and its staff to the same are proud of being able to provide you with the shipping community a service with professionalism, technical, efficiency, promptness and quality required in all its services, always maintaining a strict confidentiality and ensuring the commitment of the faithful adherent of the national and international regulations established.

- All activity of QUALITAS REGISTER OF SHIPPING is aimed at ensuring the safety of navigation and human life in the sea, the conservation of the environment and the safety of the activities related to the field of maritime transport as well as, to ensure compliance with the orders it receives from the Administrations and the customers.

- Its organizational structure is in the interest of managing quality, so that all of its elements working with a view to that goal and their functions are interrelated forming a Quality Management System focused on continuous improvement.

QUALITY OBJECTIVES

QUALITAS REGISTER OF SHIPPING (QRS) have established quality objectives to comply with a high level of service standards provided to its customers, and to support its quality policy. These objectives demonstrate commitment of top management to satisfy the customer’s requirements as well as the search of continuous improvement:

- To deliver, to the customer all Full Term certificates no later than 4 months after inspection is completed.

- To deliver the interim and short term certificates to the Head Office in a time no more than seven (07) days once the inspection is completed.

- To deliver no less than 80% of final reports of marine surveys within a period no more than 60 days after the inspection is completed.

- Strive to maintain a detention rate of no more than 5% on full term certificates issued.

- To keep our surveyors updated in new, current regulations amendments at least every 6 months, if there are any.

VALUES

QUALITAS REGISTER OF SHIPPING works with principles or values that underpin our actions as professionals serving the national and international maritime community:

- RESPECT

Abide by, without exception, the dignity, rights and freedoms on the basis of their work

- PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

We conduct all of our activities professionally and with integrity. We take great care to be completely objective in our judgement and any recommendations that we give, so that issues are never influenced by anything other than the best and proper interests of our clients.

- RESPONSIBILITY

We will be honest to fully duties promptly and efficiently enforced.

- TRANSPARENCY

We will ensure access to technical information ensuring accuracy with respect thereto.

- CONFIDENTIALITY

We are committed to maintaining the highest degree of integrity in all our dealings with potential, current and past clients, both in terms of normal commercial confidentiality, and the protection of all personal information received in the course of providing the business services concerned. We extend the same standards to all our customers, suppliers and associates.

- LEADERSHIP

Promote and support with personal example the principles or values established in this Code manual.

SERVICES

- Statutory Certifications

Qualitas Register of Shipping is a Recognized Organization and Recognized Security Organization approved by several flags maritime administrations to acting on behalf of them to the issuance statutory certificates and approval of manuals, plans, etc. QRS Class offeres to the costumers around the world quality services with a competitive prices and high technical support.

QRS Class performs the necessary technical reviews, audits and surveys for statutory certificates including those related to International Conventions such as Load Line, Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), Tonnage, Marine Pollution (MARPOL), International Safety Management Code (ISM) Code and the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code.

- Ship Classification

Qualitas Register of Shipping offers Comprehensive classification service includes new-building, vessels in operation as well as materials, systems and components.

We offers continued hull & machinery inspections program on vessels through a range of services beginning from the design stage and construction to post delivery services with the objective to make vessels operate according to internationally recognized safety standards.

Our purpose is provided support to vessels in operation is to ensure the safety of life, property and environment, while ensuring a maximum rate or return of vessels.

- Manuals / Plans / Booklets Elaboration

Qualitas Register of Shipping can guide and provide technical support for your organization in designing plans, manuals, booklets, etc. in accordance to rules and international regulations.

  • Pcsopep
  • SOPEP
  • SMPEP
  • Safety Management Manuals
  • Solas Training Manuals
  • Ship Security Plans
  • Ship Security Assessments
  • Ballast water management plan
  • Cargo securing Manual
  • Damage stability booklet
  • Garbage management Plan
  • Procedures and arrangements manual
  • Stability booklet

 - Ship & Mortgage Registration / Legal Services

Qualitas Register of Shipping provided to our customer Ship registration and Legal services under several flags including Panama, Tanzania, Moldova, Sierra Leona, Georgia, Togo, Honduras, Bolivia, Belize and others.

Qualitas enables yacht and ship owners, managers and charterers to take advantage of the various favorable fiscal regimes offered by reputable ship registries. In addition we can offers universal support to the shipping industry in the following areas:

  1. Provisional Vessel Registration
  2. Permanent Registration
  3. Bareboat Dual Registration
  4. Preliminary and Permanent Mortgage Registration.
  5. Preliminary and Permanent Property Registration.
  6. 90 days Special Registration (For Voyages or Last Trip for Scrap).
  7. Deletion Certificate.
  8. Manning Certificate.
  9. Registration of Fishing Vessel.
  10. Change of Ownerships and vessel Names.
  11. Extension of Navigations patent and radio.
  12. Continuous Synopsys Record
  13. Certificate of Competence for Seafarers endorsement.
  14. Annual taxes and renewal of Navigation documents.
  15. Pollution Insurance for Bunkers States, Blue Card, CLC.

 -Marine Surveys / Investigations

Qualitas Marine Surveyors has extensive experience in marine surveys and services, investigations of incidents/accident for the shipping, shipbuilding, Ports and Terminals, offshore and marine insurance industries, in furnishing reasonable and reliable support to its customers and providing independent, impartial and integral surveying services for the promotion and safeguarding of the safety of life and property at sea and for the prevention of pollution to the marine environment.

We enable our customers to meet compliance with international requirements. Today a ship has to meet a continually-increasing number of requirements required by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Our Marine Surveying services include but are not limited to the following: 

  • Hull & Machinery Surveys
  • P & I Surveys
  • Damage Surveys
  • Yacht Surveys
  • Flag State Inspections
  • Condition & Valuation Surveys
  • Risk Assessment for Insurance Considerations
  • On hire / Off Hire Surveys
  • Oil Spill Investigation
  • Injured Survey Investigation
  • Special investigations 

- Cargo Surveys

Qualitas Marine Surveyors has a vast experience in the most big projects development in Panama, South America and Central America.

We can performs a variety of services specifically to cover the needs of our clients and securing the sound conditions of your cargoes, including General Cargo, Bagged Cargo, Refrigerated Cargo, Bulk cargo (grains / minerals), and with special Cargoes project, providing services of monitoring of loading/unloading cargo operations and special requirements for stowage and securing/transferred, shore transportation, etc.

Our Surveyors helps protect high value bulk commodity cargos, significantly reducing risk of loss exposure to the trading parties involved. Some services that we can offer are:

  • Discharge Monitoring Surveys
  • Cargo Condition Surveys
  • Delivery Control Surveys at Site
  • Loading Monitoring Surveys
  • Surveys of Transshipped Cargo
  • Loss Control Surveys
  • Load/stowage and Securing Surveys 

- Training And Courses

Qualitas Marine Surveyors provides training Services around the world under criteria of selection of high quality training materials, including DVDs, CD-ROMs, simulators, books, guides, seminaries, workshops and courses.

Our services have been oriented to reduce gaps from company goals and state knowledge currently of the teamwork members.