Port+Control

Port control regulates and monitors the entrance, stay and departure of ships in the port area.

International [|IMO] regulations exist including requirements for the vessel, its captain, its crew members and passengers.

Individual ports have port regulations in which the international and national regulations are adapted to the local situation. For example which goods and in which quantities and with which procedures are allowed in the port area, and whether there exist bonded warehouses.

IMO has developed a number of facilitation documents (FAL), which are applied to the local circumstances. The forms are often combined with other information, especially for and towards customs. These forms are:
 * General Declaration
 * Cargo Declaration
 * Ship’s Stores Declaration
 * Crew’s Effects Declaration
 * Crew List
 * Passenger List
 * Dangerous Goods Manifest
 * Maritime Declaration of Health
 * The document required under the Universal Postal Convention for mail

Most implementations of the IMO FAL documents do not use paper documents, but electronic versions which are communicated to Customs either directly or through the services of a Port Community System.