AMSA’s mission is ensuring safe vessel operations, combating marine pollution and rescuing people in distress.

South Australia hosted the 2017 National Plan Exercise from 5 to 7 December in Adelaide.

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The campaign will apply to foreign flagged ships and Regulated Australian Vessels (RAVs) arriving at Australian ports.

Marine incidents are defined by relevant Australian laws and include a number of different types of incidents.

Exemptions and approvals for the handling, transport, and categorisation of certain cargoes.

Our senior management team runs the day-to-day operations and keeps our Board informed.

In early 2018 representatives from Fire and Rescue New South Wales (FRNSW) and AMSA boarded the containership ANL Warragul for a three day voyage to test the hazardous and noxious substances (HNS) reconnaissance capability.

New body worn cameras for AMSA frontline staff increases safety and transparency.

Our 24/7 centre responds to search and rescue (SAR) incidents throughout Australia.

From 6 to 9 August 2018 Newcastle hosted the 27th professional development workshop of the National Plan Environment, Scientific and Technical (ES&T) Network.

Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL Annex VI) allows ships to use exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) to comply with the 0.50 per cent m/m sulphur fuel oil limit that commenced on 1 January 2020

Operators and crew of these types of operations face unique safety challenges and risk.

1. The criteria for the issue to a person of a trainee pilot licence are that the person: (a)  is entitled to work in Australia; and (b)  holds: 

Advisory note for the offshore petroleum industry on environmental plans and oil pollution emergency plans.

This marine notice provides information on how the automatic channel switching feature in VHF digital selective calling (DSC) radios may impact voice communications during safety critical operations.

We have a joint memorandum of understanding (MOU) with state and territory work health and safety (WHS) regulators. The MOU supports worker safety at sea.