Secretariat_of_the_Navy_(Mexico)

Secretariat of the Navy

Secretariat of the Navy

Mexican naval military official

The Mexican Secretary of the Navy (Spanish: Secretaría de Marina, SEMAR) is a member of the federal executive cabinet as well as the highest-ranking Mexican naval officer with the responsibility of commanding the Mexican Navy (including the Mexican Naval Infantry or ‘marines,’ as well as the Mexican merchant marine service [1]) and managing the Secretariat of the Navy (the naval ministry and naval civil service). The secretary is appointed by the President of the Republic.[2]

  • Organizes, administers and prepares the Navy.
  • Exercising sovereignty in territorial seas, its air space and Mexico's coasts.

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Functions

Based on article 30 of the Organic Law of the Federal Public Administration, among other actions the Secretariat is mandated to:

  • Organize and administer the affairs of the Mexican Navy
  • Manage the assets and reserves of the Navy in all its aspects
  • Grant licenses and withdrawals, and intervene in the pensions of Navy service personnel
  • Exercise sovereignty in territorial waters, as well as monitoring the coast of the territory, waterways, national islands and the exclusive economic zone
  • Organize, administer and operate the naval aviation service
  • Conduct naval public education
  • Organize and administer the maritime police service
  • Inspect the services of the Navy
  • Build, rebuild and conserve the port works required by the Navy
  • Establish and manage the stores and fuel stations and lubricants of the Navy
  • Execute the topohydrographic works of the coasts, islands, ports and waterways, as well as organize the maritime chart file and relative statistics
  • Intervene in the granting of permits for expeditions or scientific explorations abroad or international in national waters
  • Build, maintain and operate, shipyards, dams, boatyards and naval establishments destined to the ships of the Mexican Navy
  • Organize and provide naval health services
  • Integrate the national oceanographic information archive
  • Help in the organization and enforcement of National Naval Military Service
  • Organize Maritime SAR operations
  • Administer the Mexican Merchant Marine Fleets

List of secretaries

References

  1. [1]
    "Merchant marine gets incorporated into Mexican navy". 2 June 2021.
  2. [2]
    http://www.semar.gob.mx/
  3. [3]
    "Este fue el gabinete de Felipe Calderón". www.capitalmexico.com.mx (in Spanish). Capital México. Feb 6, 2018. Retrieved September 17, 2020.

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