For seafarers who want to work as a qualified rating in both the deck and engine departments on vessels operating under the STCW Convention.

Find out what safety checks you need to do before carrying a fishery observer onboard. 

Find out what the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) covers and how it's implemented in Australia.

All domestic commercial vessels are required to have a national law certificate of survey—unless an exemption applies.

Accurate weight declaration for cargo containers is a critical safety issue. Shippers must provide a verified gross mass for containers.

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

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.

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

Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL Annex VI) allows ships to use exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) to comply with the 0.50 per cent m/m sulphur fuel oil limit that commenced on 1 January 2020

The Pacific Quest was found guilty of discharging an oily mixture from a ship into the sea near Border Island, Queensland on 25 December 2002.

These general exemptions are now superseded or repealed. Superseded and repealed exemptions may affect how the national system works for you.

All ships must follow the requirements of MARPOL Annex V when discharging cargo residue.

On 6 February 1988 the Hong Kong registered bulk carrier Sir Alexander Glen lost approximately 450 tonnes of heavy fuel oil into the waters off Port Walcott, Western Australia when a bunker tank was holed by the ship's anchor.

In this edition we talk about recent surveyor audits.

We manage a network of about 480 marine aids to navigation (AtoN) located at about 360 sites around Australia’s coastline.

The 276th meeting of the Board was held on Thursday, 20 November 2025, in Canberra, ACT.

In this edition we look at the most common reasons for certificate of survey refusal.