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GENERAL STRATEGY
OF THE CHILEAN MARITIME ADMINISTRATION
FOR THE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF
THE INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE
INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION
2021 - 2025

I.- PRESENTATION AND

PURPOSE

The Chilean Maritime Administration (AMN) is composed of
different State institutions and bodies with competence
in the maritime-port area that meet in an Interministerial
Coordination Group for Maritime Affairs, named National
Maritime Administration Coordinating Committee . The
role of the AMN is to ensure compliance with the duties
and responsibilities assumed in international and national
regulations, with a view to reaching the highest performance
standards in the maritime-port sector.

The Headquarters Maritime Administration is the Directorate
General of the Maritime Territory and Merchant Marine
(DIRECTEMAR), which, in its role as National Maritime
Authority, coordinates the activities of the National Maritime
Administration Coordinating Committee and works as its
executive secretary.

This Maritime Strategy aims at joining efforts and serving
as a planning and management tool to ensure that the
Chilean State complies with its international duties and
responsibilities as Coastal State, Flag State and Port State,
which were taken on after ratifying the instruments of the
International Maritime Organization (IMO), thus contributing
to maritime safety, conservation of biodiversity, preservation
of the marine environment and facilitation of seaborne trade.

This Maritime Strategy is based on observance
of International Law, the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals, the United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the International Maritime
Organization Strategic Plan and the framework defined in
the National Ocean Policy and its Oceanographic Program,
in addition, it establishes a methodology with clear and
concrete goals that allow the supervision and assessment
of the processes of effective implementation of the relevant
mandatory instruments. Finally, it serves as a mechanism
of continuing review to achieve, maintain, and improve the
results and organizational capacity of the Chilean Maritime
Administration.

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