AMSA Connect phone services may have longer wait times on Monday 1 June 2026 while we operate with reduced staffing due to the Reconciliation Day Public Holiday in Canberra. Our search and rescue team will continue to operate during this time.
This report provides a review of activities undertaken in 2020-21, using the reporting arrangements set out in the Portfolio Budget Statements 2020-21 and the AMSA Corporate Plan 2020-21 (covering the period 2020-21 - 2023-24).
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.
This exemption allows DCV owners an extension of time for obtaining periodic or load line surveys, or a new certificate of currency for equipment. It also allows them to operate without required compass adjustments or while a liferaft is being serviced.
Following the Global Peace oil spill in Gladstone on 24 January 2006, two separate inquiries were undertaken to investigate the circumstances surrounding the cause of, and response to the oil spill.
A lone cray fisher was heading for shelter during poor weather. He had been working for 17 hours without rest. While nearing the planned anchor point, the master fell asleep at the helm and the vessel continued on, running aground on the rocky shoreline.
The National Plan principles are to protect the community, environment and maritime industries, give effect to international conventions and integrate with Australian emergency management arrangements.
Reminding all ship owners, ship operators and masters of the requirements for the safe carriage of ammonium nitrate on board ships with a particular emphasis on the carriage in Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (FIBC).
The Nautical Twilight exercises practised field deployment, operational response management and explored strategic recovery issues in separate exercises.
Exemption 44 exempts owners of domestic commercial vessels (DCVs) from the requirements of Marine Order 503 (Certificates of survey–national law) 2018 to hold an engine international air pollution prevention (EIAPP) certificate in order to be issued a certificate of survey.
Australia regulates emissions from all ships (including cargo ships, bulk carriers and other vessels) to protect the marine environment and human health from air pollution and to ensure international emission standards are met. You must comply with these requirements when operating in Australian waters.
DCV operators: Learn how to develop a fatigue management plan. This is a requirement under the national law for Class 1, 2 and 3 vessels, including those eligible for a simplified SMS.