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The Minister for Infrastructure, Transport Regional Development and Local Government, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP released the AMSA report Improving Safe Navigation in the Great Barrier Reef on 18 April 2010. Included within that report was AMSA’s Strategic Vision 2010-2025.

AMSA’s Strategic Vision 2010-2025 provided a sound basis for the advice AMSA provided to the Minister regarding improvements to navigation safety in the Great Barrier Reef area including the extension of the current ship reporting system to the southern portion of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Section 1 of the AMSA’s Strategic Vision 2010-2025 relates to Seafarer and Ship Safety and identifies as one of our challenges: Managing expected international shipping growth of 66%, particularly traffic into Australia’s north west and east coast resource ports. Measures to deal with the anticipated growth had already been examined by AMSA in the context of this expected increase in shipping traffic when the Shen Neng 1 incident occurred off Gladstone, and this work will continue in the years ahead.

AMSA’s vision is to be a respected world leading regulator and provider of maritime safety, marine environment protection, and provider of maritime and aviation search and rescue. AMSA’s Strategic Vision 2010-2025 outlines the challenges we see confronting us out to 2025. It also provides our proposed responses to those challenges thereby providing our priorities and guiding our direction for the next 15 years.

As well as Seafarer and Ship Safety, AMSA’s Strategic Vision 2010-2025 examines Environment Protection; Maritime and Aviation Search and Rescue; Maritime Safety Reform; Maritime Workforce; and AMSA’s Strategic Position. I commend AMSA’s Strategic Vision 2010-2025 to you.

Leo Zussino
Chairman