navicert การใช้

• Ships with a navicert were permitted safe passage through allied lines.
• From January 1941, British authorities required Irish ships to visit a British port and obtain a " navicert ".
• A ship with a " navicert " was given free passage through allied patrols and fuel, however they would be searched.
• Any consignment going to or from ports without a certificate of non-enemy origin and any ship without a ships Navicert became liable to seizure
• The Navicert system was greatly extended, introducing compulsory Navicerts and ships'warrants in an attempt to prevent contraband being loaded in the first place.
• Italy, though an ally of Hitler, had not yet joined the war, and its captains enjoyed much faster turnarounds by following the Navicert system than the Americans, who largely refused to accept its legitimacy.
• Possession of a Navicert proved that a consignment had already been passed as non-contraband by His Majesty's Ambassador in the country of origin and allowed the captain to pass Contraband Control patrols and ports without being stopped, sparing the navy and the Ministry the trouble of tracking the shipment.
• In December 1941 an attempt by the Swiss military to purchase American machine-gun cameras was blocked by Britain's refusal to grant a Navicert, and in April 1942 the US Board of Economic Warfare considered quotas for Swiss imports from overseas sources, identifying Swiss commodities which might be bargained for.
• Two months into the war, the Ministry reintroduced the'Navicert'( " Navi " gational " Cert " ificate ), first used to great effect during World War I . This system was in essence a commercial passport applied to goods before they were shipped, and was used on a wide scale.