Founded in 1983 by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the World Maritime University (WMU) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is a center of excellence for maritime post-graduate education and research and offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs as...

London 10 April 2014  The Antigua and Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS) and the St. Kitts & Nevis International Ship Registry (SKANReg) have jointly formed the Caribbean Cooperative Data Centre for Long Distance Identification and...

Caribbean MOU on PSC completes inaugural CIC on MARPOL Annex I March 11, 2014   Ships adhering to MARPOL Annex I within the CMOU region   From September 1, 2013 to November 30, 2013, the Caribbean MOU carried out a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on MARPOL...

  ISO 9001:2008 Re-Certification Audit of the Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping On January 30th, February 20th, 25th and 26th, 2014 the Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS) successfully completed an external ISO re...

Preliminary results from the Harmonized Verification Programme (HAVEP) on passenger ships, carried out between 1 January 2013 and 31December 2013 in the Paris MoU region show that:   See link below for full release Press release preliminary results HAVEP...

The Antigua & Barbuda Flag vessel Shirkan C , under the command of Captain Jankowski Ireneusz  was recently  involved in a  successful rescue operation of four fishermen from their sinking boat off the West African Coast. The Captain and all on board the Shirkan C...

STATEMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA BY H.E. MR. DWIGHT C.R. GARDINER, AMBASSADOR, PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA TO THE IMO AND DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA MARITIME ADMINISTRATION ON THE OCCASION OF THE 28th SESSION OF THE IMO ASSEMBLY...

The Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping hosted a regional workshop on the Implementation of the Voluntary Member State Audit Scheme (VIMSAS). The workshop was organized by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and ran from September 30th to...

The Maritime Administration of Antigua and Barbuda; the Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS) has a vacancy for a: Senior Technical Management Position This role includes appointment as Deputy Director and managing the Technical Division at the...

The new website of the Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS) was officially launched in February 2013.  This new site www.abregistry.ag is the final component in the re branding exercise of ADOMS that began in 2009. It was specifically designed...

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA DEPARTMENT OF MARINE SERVICES AND MERCHANT SHIPPING (ADOMS) HEADQUARTERS   Antiguan and Barbudan Contractors are invited to pre-qualify for the opportunity to be involved in and bid for the construction of the above multi-storey building on Factory...