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On 28 July 1988, the livestock carrier Al Qurain struck a wharf heavily while berthing in Portland, Victoria and severely ruptured a side fuel tank. An estimated 184 tonnes of fuel oil escaped into Portland Harbour.

As manager of Australia’s National Plan, we have a fixed wing aerial dispersant capability as a key component of Australia’s capacity to respond to oil spills in the marine environment.

Our process for conducting Registered training organisation evaluations.

Find out about the search and rescue incidents we attended between July 2019 and June 2020

Advice on maintaining rescue boats in working order.

This marine notice aims to raise awareness of the risks involved with getting on and off vessels.

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Standards for 'fast craft': vessels capable of speeds over 25 knots.

Purpose To ensure that navigation corridors are used appropriately when planning on ECDIS, and to ensure that a voyage plan approved by the ship’s Master is executed within the planne

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.

We administer the national law, regulations and marine orders in implementing the national system.

Managing fatigue is everyone’s responsibility. This guidance hub will help you manage fatigue in your commercial vessel operation.

Standards for maintaining stability during day-to-day operations while the hull is intact.

We work with government and industry to respond to pollution incidents under the National Plan for Maritime Environmental Emergencies.