Australia is a part of the International Maritime Organization — maritime safety and marine pollution prevention are more effective when carried out internationally.

AMSA is pleased to be a sponsor of the 2023 annual conference of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (MLAANZ), 4-6 October.

(1)  The criteria for issue to a person of an unrestricted pilot licence, for a stated pilotage area, are that the person: 

Our role in working with the offshore industry.

Seafarers often spend many months working away from family and friends with this situation being made worse if the vessel they are engaged on is involved in a maritime accident

We charge fees for evaluating and approving courses that are delivered by Registered training organisations.

A summary of discharge standards under MARPOL and local regulations if you are operating your vessel in Australian waters.

Our Board is appointed by the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.

The National Maritime Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulators Forum is a collaborative platform for discussing maritime workplace health and safety. Its main aim is to improve safety for domestic commercial vessels.

AMSA approved training organisations delivering Continued competence (Certificate of Safety Training) (COST).

The National Plan uses a risk based approach to reduce the impact of maritime environment emergencies.

We have approved these courses if you want to qualify for a certificate under international training conventions.

This marine notice supersedes Marine Notice 10/2022.

We maintain a database which assists us to calculate the risk factor of a vessel. This lets us target elevated risk vessels for inspection. 

Your vessel may be considered a regulated Australian vessel (RAV).

If you are serving or have served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as a Maritime Warfare Officer, this information explains how to qualify for an International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarer (STCW) certificate of competency for a: Chief mate Master less than 3000 GT Master

As the national standard is updated, generic equivalent standards (GES) are being superseded.

Regulatory requirements for certificates of competency, sometimes referred to as ‘tickets’, apply to thousands of Australians working across the domestic commercial vessel (DCV) industry.