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Guide for Commercial Registration
 

Which vessels should be registered?


Commercial vessels sailing overseas or employed in international cabotage.

The French law of 3 May 2005 regarding the creation of the French International Register specifies that the following are excluded from making use of the RIF:

  • Passenger ships sailing scheduled intra-community lines or, in accordance with a list fixed by decree, scheduled international lines. The list provided in the fifth paragraph of article 2 of the law of 3 May 2005 stated above is made up of scheduled international lines of maritime passenger transportation between a Member State of the European Union and Algeria, Morocco or Tunisia.
  • Vessels exclusively used in national cabotage,
  • Port assistance vessels, in particular those assigned to towing at the port, maintenance dredging, boatage, piloting and buoyage.