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Explore the trends in vessel design, materials and certification shaping Australia’s domestic fleet. See what was built, where, and how vessels are evolving to meet industry needs.
At 8.55 am on 10 September 1979, the tanker World Encouragement was conducting berthing operations at an Australian Oil Refinery (AOR) mooring at Kurnell in Botany Bay, New South Wales, when oil began rising to the water surface from beneath the ship.
Streamlined equipment lists for non-survey fishing vessels operating within 2 nautical miles of land in specified warm waters and in beach fisheries within 200 metres of land.
In this edition we explain how you can design your own forms for surveys, we clarify the EPIRB requirements for life raft, discuss disputed deficiencies during initial survey and more.
The short-term measure under the MARPOL Convention requires ships engaged on international voyages to make improvements to deliver a reduction in their carbon intensity by an average of at least 40% by 2030 (compared to 2008 levels), in line with the target set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Survey modifiers are high risk operations and vessel attributes that change the survey and other requirements that would otherwise apply to the vessel.
In this edition we talk about survey procedures to verify radio installations on some vessels, we give tips for conducting a load line renewal survey, talk about simple exemptions and more.
In the April edition we tell you what we are doing to support our industry during the COVID-19 period, we provide information about passive fire safety measures, give guidance on inspecting internal buoyancy or sealed internal hull voids, and more.
On 3 April 2010, the Shen Neng 1 was traversing a well-known shipping route south of the Douglas Shoal when it ran aground 38 nautical miles east of Great Keppel Island at about 5.30 pm.
Find out how domestic commercial vessels (DCVs) performed on safety, crew training, incident reporting and more during our focussed inspections campaign on towage operations.