This marine notice draws attention to the importance of providing shore leave to seafarers, for ships visiting Australian ports.

This marine notice highlights the importance of ensuring navigation bridge visibility on all vessels sailing in Australian waters. Vessel operators, masters and navigational officers should take note of its content.

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

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We provide a range of geographic information as digital maps and spatial data sets. This visual geographic data is used to support search and rescue, pollution response, vessel tracking, and navigation in Australian waters. Some data access may require you to pay a fee.

As a regulatory body, we are required to publish a range of information about our functions and how we carry them out. We do this under the information publication scheme.

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AMSA is pleased to be sponsoring the 2023 Interferry Conference, to be held in Australia for the first time since 2002.

Most services for operators and crew of domestic commercial vessels are now provided by us instead of Maritime Safety Queensland.

You can prepare in case your ship is inspected during a visit to an Australian port.

Oil spill control agents (OSCA) may assist in oil spill clean up in Australian waters.

The Navigation Act 2012 is legislation which covers international ship and seafarer safety, protect the marine environment where it relates to shipping and the actions of seafarers in Australian waters.

Outlines the dangers of using weighted heaving lines when transferring mooring lines to tugs and shore linespersons

A training organisation must apply to be accredited to provide approved VTS training.