Disclaimer
Last updated 18 September 2026
ShipCert is not Transport Canada, is not affiliated with Transport Canada or any other certifying authority, and is not endorsed by them. Nothing in ShipCert is an official record or a determination of your eligibility for any certificate.
What ShipCert does
ShipCert records sea service and certificates you enter, and compares them against our own reading of the Marine Personnel Regulations (SOR/2007-115). It is a bookkeeping and estimation tool.
What it does not do
- It does not issue, endorse, renew or validate any certificate.
- It does not submit anything to Transport Canada on your behalf.
- It does not determine whether you qualify for a certificate. Only Transport Canada does that.
- It does not replace a sea service testimonial signed by a master, or any other document the regulations require.
The requirements may be wrong
Transport Canada publishes no machine-readable source for certification requirements, so every rule in ShipCert is transcribed by hand from the regulations. We cite the section each requirement came from so you can check it, and we test the calculations — but transcription errors, stale rules following an amendment, and misreadings are all possible.
Your own entries can also be wrong. A mistyped gross tonnage or an unrecorded qualifying day changes the result, and ShipCert cannot verify what you enter against any registry.
Before you rely on it
Confirm anything that matters against the Marine Personnel Regulations and with a Transport Canada examiner. Do not make decisions about your career, your sea time, or an application on the basis of a ShipCert figure alone.
If you spot a requirement we have encoded incorrectly, tell us at hello@shipcert.io — corrections are the most useful thing you can send us.