Oil tankers above 150 gross tonnage and other ships of 400 gross tonnage or above must record oil-relevant operations.

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

Planned Maintenance – 15 January 2022 to 28 February 2022AMSA conducted a Planned Maintenance Focused Inspection Campaign (FIC) over the period 15 January 2022 to 28 February 2022.

Our regulatory plan is produced annually and contains planned changes to our regulatory instruments.

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

Guidance for calculating your sea service equivalence if you are a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Rating (specialist seaman department), Maritime Warfare Officer (Maritime Warfare department) or RAN Leading Seaman, Petty Officer, Chief Petty Officer or Warrant Officer (Marine Engineering or Electrical Technical department).

Our regulatory program is prepared annually and contains details of planned and completed changes to our regulatory instruments.

Under the National Plan, we have marine pollution response equipment positioned in strategic locations around Australia to support response to an incident.

Be prepared before your trip. Stay safe on land.

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

General and practical information about the AMSA mandated practical assessment (AMPA), including how to perform the assessment.

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.

How to comply with low sulphur fuel requirements.

How to get a engineering qualifications recognized if you are a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) seaman officer.

Our regulatory program is prepared annually and contains details of planned and completed changes to our regulatory instruments.

These general exemptions are now superseded or repealed. Superseded and repealed exemptions may affect how the national system works for you.

You need full ownership history to register a vessel. If you don’t have this information, you must submit a notice of intention to register a vessel to AMSA.