These instructions for ship registration and transfer of ownership are provided for ship brokers and agents.

The provision of adequate port waste reception facilities for ship-generated waste is vital to preventing marine pollution.

Australia Bay Seafoods General Manager and career fisherman Michael O’Brien, talks to AMSA about how the tragic loss of life with the capsizing of FV Dianne and FV Cassandra prompted them to reinforce their approach to safety.

In rough weather, early in the morning of 24 May, about 50 containers were lost overboard from the Singapore-flagged container ship APL England. Read our regular updates.

In 2024–25, our compliance activities focused on high-risk areas identified through safety data and guided by the National Compliance Plan. This summary reports our progress and key outcomes in these priority areas.

In this edition we explain how to complete a shaft survey report, tell you about changes to MARS, changes to surveyor identity cards and much more.

Environmental, scientific and technical functions and resources in spill response.

In this edition, learn more about the new NSCV C2 and Marine Order 97.

The following statistics relate to the complaints received by AMSA since we issued Marine notice 04/2020 (expired 30 September 2020) and Marine notice 10/2020 (expired 28 February 2021).

All domestic commercial vessels must have a certificate of survey unless exempt.

We offer nationally recognised units of competency in marine pollution response and incident management.

Standards for electrical installations, safety, testing and repair.

Read a summary of results from the consultation on Exemption 24 - Marine Safety (Emergency service vessels) and download a copy of the full report.

Australian legislative requirements preventing pollution from discharge of garbage.

We are a team of dedicated professionals – hear more about our experiences working at AMSA.