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Norwegian Maritime Directorate

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09.06.1903 Regular founding

Name: The Maritime Office
Short name: Sjøfartskontoret
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Division
COFOG 04 Economic affairs
Superior body: Ministry of Trade, Shipping and Industry
Main affiliation category: National single organization (without subordinated units)
Located: 301 Kristiania

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.1913* New form of affiliation/administrative level

(The unit is reorganized and has changed its form of affiliation/administrative level.)
Affiliations: Central agency/directorate

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.1913* Change of name

Name: Directorate of Navigation
Short name: Sjøfartsdirektoratet

01.01.1926* New form of affiliation/administrative level

(The unit is reorganized and has changed its form of affiliation/administrative level.)
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Division

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.1926* Change of name

Name: The Maritime Office
Short name: Sjøfartskontoret

01.10.1955 New superior organization (horizontal movement)

(The unit has changed superior.)
Superior body: Ministry of Commerce and Shipping

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

27.04.1962 New form of affiliation/administrative level

(The unit is reorganized and has changed its form of affiliation/administrative level.)
Affiliations: Central agency/directorate

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

27.04.1962 Unit moving into, or out of, integrated organizations

(The unit moves into, or out of, an integrated organization or a group organization; the unit becomes part of a larger service / group of organizations.)
Superior body: Ministry of Commerce and Shipping
Belongs to group Norwegian Maritime Directorate
Main affiliation category: Central unit in integrated civil service organization

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

27.04.1962 Change of name

Name: Norwegian Maritime Directorate
Short name: Sjøfartsdirektoratet

01.01.1988* No change to unit, but change of superior

(The unit reports to a new superior organization because the previous superior organization was terminated at the same time.)
Superior body: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

01.01.1990* Maintenance by absorption

Incorporated bodies:

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.1997* New superior organization (horizontal movement)

(The unit has changed superior.)
Superior body: Ministry of Trade and Industry

01.11.2006* Change of location

Located: 1106 Haugesund
Procedure and documents for this change:

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2012* Maintenance by reorganization

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2012 Maintenance by absorption

Procedure and documents for this change:
Incorporated bodies:

1 January 2012: The Ship Registers NIS/NOR merge with the Norwegian Maritime Directorate to form the new Norwegian Maritime Authority.

The Ship Register will be a new department in the directorate. Our core activities will continue as before and we will still be based in Bergen.

Source: Norwegian International Ship Register web pages

01.01.2014 No change to unit, but change of superior

(The unit reports to a new superior organization because the previous superior organization was terminated at the same time.)
Superior body: Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.

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