Secretariat of the Navy

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

• Official Website of the Navy
• Official site of the President's Cabinet Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine

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