Check if AMSA recognises your country or overseas STCW certificate, and what this means for your application in Australia.

Find out if the vessel you own or operate under a boat-share agreement is a domestic commercial vessel.

Contains three charts of uniform waypoints—Great Barrier Reef—Inner route north as well as alternative routes.

Read a summary of results from the mid-2024 consultation on Marine Order 11 and download a copy of the full report.

The 2019-20 Australian Vessel Traffic Services Award was awarded to Warren Bath, VTS Operator at Hay Point, Queensland, for his coordination of an incident involving a bulk carrier.

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AMSA surveyor’s will be using the checklist below when inspecting ships as part of our livestock ships focused inspection campaign.

Find out more about how to get a certificate of medical fitness, and why you need one.

If you hold a valid STCW certificate issued by another country and want to work on an Australian-flagged vessel, you need a certificate of recognition (CoR). In some countries this is called a recognition endorsement.

How to meet the medical requirements for domestic seafarer certificates

If you undertake towing operations with your vessel, there are unique risks that you must consider within your risk assessment as part of the safety management system.

Due to amendments to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers 1978 (STCW), refresher training is required for some certificates.

Environmental, scientific and technical functions and resources in spill response.

List of the locations of the debris found from the YM Efficiency, before the salvage operation.

This safety lesson describes how experienced Queensland prawn trawl fisher, Tony Sterling, developed an inpull winch that pulls in both sides of the trawl gear at the same time. The winch has delivered major safety benefits because crew no longer need to go out onto the booms.

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

Locations of the containers found from the YM Efficiency, before the salvage operation.