Guide

Maritime Administration: vessels and marine operations

MARAD covers ships, seafarers, and marine pollution duties. It is not the upstream licence and not the EPA permit.

What the official sources say

The Maritime Administration Department publishes its role and a maritime-laws index. Relevant duties can include ship registration, certification, seafarers, and marine pollution for vessels and offshore marine operations. The home page has been awkward for automated checks. The readable official entries used here are the about page and the maritime-laws index.

Shipping, port, and river penalties were not extracted in this catalogue. They are an unverified backlog. Do not invent a fine because the row is blank. A vessel can also have EPA and Oil Pollution Act questions. Those are separate instruments. The Oil Pollution Act's commencement was not verified as of 8 November 2026.

Open the cited source

Checklist

Record the vessel, the flag, and the certificate expiry from the document, not from memory.
Link https://marad.gov.gy/maritime-laws-2 for the laws index.
Leave shipping fines blank until a section is reviewed.
Keep MARAD, EPA, and the petroleum licence as three rows.
Do not treat a class certificate as a Guyana statutory filing receipt.

Questions people ask

Does MARAD license upstream production?

No. Upstream petroleum licensing is a Ministry of Natural Resources matter. MARAD's published role is maritime administration.

What is the fine for a shipping offence?

Not stated in this catalogue. The research snapshot left shipping and port offences unverified. Do not fill the gap with a round number.

Is the Oil Pollution Act a MARAD form?

No. It is a separate 2025 statute. Commencement was not verified as of 8 November 2026, so related rows are readiness only.

Informational only. This is not legal, tax, or regulatory advice, and it is not a certification or a government publication. A qualified legal reviewer has not been appointed. Confirm the current Act, permit, licence, and guideline before you rely on a date or a figure. PetroMetric does not file reports or applications with any agency. Source snapshot 8 November 2026, America/Guyana. Contact (592) 600-1096 or service@computingcore.net. Contact for pricing.