Join the event online or in person at East Fremantle Yacht Club in WA.

Ships registered on the Australian general shipping register have Australian nationality.

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.

If you are no longer carrying out commercial operations outside the Australian exclusive economic zone, you can switch to being a domestic commercial vessel by surrendering your regulated Australian vessel (RAV) Certificate of survey , Maritime Labour Certificate, and load line certificate. You can then apply for domestic commercial vessel certification.

Follow these steps if your RAV is no longer carrying out commercial operations outside the Australian Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) or it's being brought to Australia to operate as a DCV.

Our role in working with the offshore industry.

A summary of discharge standards under MARPOL and local regulations if you are operating your vessel in Australian waters.

Watch the video of Mark Jacobs who has hung up his snorkel and fins to help save lives across 10 per cent of the Earth’s surface.

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Join our team and be part of a culture built on respect, collaboration, and a shared purpose.

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

We have offices all around Australia. You can contact our state offices using the details below.

This marine notice advises vessel owners, vessel operators, masters, officers, seafarer training organisations and industry organisations that AMSA does not consider electronic visual distress signals (EVDs) to be a suitable replacement for pyrotechnic distress signals.

A timeline of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA’s) involvement in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

We are seeking your feedback on proposed changes to Marine Order 47 (Offshore Industry Units).

Reporting general marine pollution helps us to respond quickly to an incident to minimise damage to the environment.