superronin.com/circulars: an open index of maritime circulars

Inside SuperRonin the circulars of a vessel's flag, class and P&I club arrive in a bell and by e-mail, as we wrote this morning and later today. The documents themselves are public, though, and finding them is a chore of its own. Small registries publish a single long list with no search. Some of the links point at the wrong file. Panama keeps its Merchant Marine Circulars in a table that weighs 670 KB.

So the index is now open to everyone at superronin.com/circulars.

One page per issuer. Each page lists every document we have found on that issuer's list: date, number and title, newest first. The title opens the original file on the issuer's own site. Above the list there is a short summary from the data: how many documents, how far back, how many this year, which one is the latest. A few questions people actually ask are answered below it: where the issuer publishes, how it numbers its documents, how to get new ones by e-mail.

What it covers today. Flag administrations of Tanzania (Zanzibar register), Panama and Belize. The Hellenic Classification Society. UK P&I Club circulars, The Swedish Club's member alerts and Britannia's news. The Paris, Tokyo and Abuja port State control MoUs. The IMO's own news. Each list is read at least once a day; the page says when it was last checked.

What it does not do. We copy only the number, the date and the title. There are no copies of PDFs and no summaries of the content, and the issuer's document is the one that counts if anything differs. Nothing on these pages says which companies use SuperRonin or which issuers they follow.

Pages with fewer than ten documents, or whose list has not been read for a day, stay out of search engines until they fill up or recover.

If you want new documents of your own flag, class or club in a bell and by e-mail, the certificate register does that for free while it is a pilot. Missing an issuer? Write to [email protected] and say which one.