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The Ship Registers, NIS/NOR

This page shows the event history for this unit.

15.05.1992 Regular founding

Name: The Ship Registers, NIS/NOR
Short name: NIS/NOR
Affiliations: Other public administration body
Hierarchical level: Highest level
COFOG 04 Economic affairs
Main affiliation category: National single organization (without subordinated units)
Located: 1201 Bergen

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.)

31.12.2011 Ending by absorption

(The unit is terminated (absorbed by another existing unit).)
Procedure and documents for this change:
The unit was absorbed by:

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.
All documents and requests for registration shall still be directed to us.

Source: Norwegian International Ship Register web page

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.