Find out if you can get an equivalent certificate for your New Zealand engineering certificate of competency.

The information you provide in your incident report plays an important part in guiding the way we improve maritime safety for everybody on the water. By reporting marine incidents to us, you are also meeting your reporting obligations under Australian laws.

This consultation feedback report is based on submissions to us via an online form and Facebook.

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

At 8.55 am on 10 September 1979, the tanker World Encouragement was conducting berthing operations at an Australian Oil Refinery (AOR) mooring at Kurnell in Botany Bay, New South Wales, when oil began rising to the water surface from beneath the ship.

Controlling the risks that weather and water pose to a vessel.

Our Board is appointed by the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.

The Pacific Quest was found guilty of discharging an oily mixture from a ship into the sea near Border Island, Queensland on 25 December 2002.

Our 2025-26 regulatory program identifies the priority regulatory reform projects that will be progressed this financial year.

The 276th meeting of the Board was held on Thursday, 20 November 2025, in Canberra, ACT.

Our latest statement about data submitted to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).

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The information you provide in your incident report plays an important part in guiding the way we improve maritime safety for everybody on the water. By reporting marine incidents to us, you are also meeting your reporting obligations under Australian laws.

Explore the trends in vessel design, materials and certification shaping Australia’s domestic fleet. See what was built, where, and how vessels are evolving to meet industry needs.

In this edition we talk about Lightship declarations and the law, new surveyor accreditation guidance manual part 2 now available and electrical issues able to be identified by non-electrical periodic surveyors.

This marine notice aims to raise awareness of the risks involved with getting on and off vessels.

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.