The MNL applies to most commercial vessels operating in Australia. It helps fund the cost of operating and maintaining marine aids to navigation systems.

We offer nationally recognised units of competency in marine pollution response and incident management.

The National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV) provides standards for vessel design, construction and equipment for domestic commercial vessels.

You may need to pay a fee, levy or charge, depending on what action you need to do. Find out about our current levies, fees, and payment options.

We maintain nine strategic equipment stockpiles of marine pollution response equipment around the Australian coastline.

Monitoring an oil spill is necessary to address concerns raised about its effects and the impact of the associated cleanup response.

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We follow the guidance of international conventions when conducting search and rescue (SAR) activities.

In this safety lesson, veteran trawl fisher Mark Millward explains what he has learned from involvement in person overboard incidents. Mark has operated in the Queensland East Coast and Torres Strait Prawn Trawl Fisheries for over 40 years.

Follow these steps if you want to take a DCV overseas for dry docking, sale or delivery.

Transfer, suspend or revoke a certificate or approval for a domestic commercial vessel. You may need to transfer the certificate or approval when you sell or purchase a vessel.

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

The criteria for issue to a person of a restricted pilot licence, for a stated pilotage area and a stated draught limit, are that the person: 

Follow these steps if your RAV is no longer carrying out commercial operations outside the Australian Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) or it's being brought to Australia to operate as a DCV.