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When completing a bunker delivery note, you will need to include specific details.

Be prepared before your trip. Stay safe at sea, on land or in the air.

Australia’s first recorded major oil spill occurred on Saturday 28 November 1903 in Port Phillip Bay.

Your vessel may be inspected to verify your compliance with cargo requirements. These requirements and regulations apply to safety-related aspects for marine carriage of cargo.

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

Changes to survey regime for domestic commercial vessels from 1 July 2018.

If you have an alternative way of meeting your safety requirements, you can make an equivalent means of compliance application.

Find out about permitted tolerance, enforcement of requirements and how we will deal with delays in transmitting the VGM electronically.

An online learning program providing an awareness of how AMSA combats pollution in the marine environment.

All domestic commercial vessels are required to have a national law certificate of survey—unless an exemption applies.

This course is designed for people who may perform or support the role of finance officer during a marine pollution response.

You must be a specific distance from the nearest land before a discharge at sea can be made.

Find policies and requirements for registered training organisations to obtain AMSA approval for International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) training.

In this edition we explain correct and incorrect use of conditions.

We provide a search and rescue (SAR) service for Australia. This allows us to quickly deploy a SAR response for anyone in distress.