A marine notice provides important safety related information, general guidance and details about upcoming changes to legislation to the shipping and maritime community.

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.

This service charter sets out the standard of service you can expect to receive from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.

Use this appropriate crewing evaluation template to record your crewing assessment and appropriate crewing outcomes in your vessel’s safety management system.

Risk assessments help identify why, when and where lifejackets need to be worn during vessel operations. Wearing a lifejacket can help prevent a tragic incident.

Information regarding remote survey requests for ships detained in Australia.

Operators of Regulated Australian Vessels (RAV) and Foreign Vessels, as well as the shippers of livestock, have obligations when loading and transporting livestock from Australia.

We offer a maritime professional development program for mid to senior level port State control (PSC) staff from counterpart maritime safety agencies.

Safeguard your vessel and operation with an active maintenance plan.

AMSA has a fair, and non-discriminatory procurement complaints handling process.

Consultation on Marine Order 47 closed on 1 July 2019.

We will conduct a focused inspection campaign on lifejacket risk assessment requirements on DCVs.

We consulted you about vessel reporting systems.

A fire occurred on a passenger vessel in a busy harbour. The master and crew took immediate action and followed emergency procedures to disembark and transfer 73 passengers safely to another ferry. The vessel’s structural and fixed firefighting systems worked effectively to contain and extinguish the fire.