This safety alert aims to raise awareness of the risks involved with the carriage of battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) on roll-on, roll-off (RORO) ferries.

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A particularly sensitive sea area (PSSA) is given special protection because of its vulnerability to damage from international shipping activities.

Find out how you obtain your unique vessel identifier and how to display it correctly.

Members of our executive and leadership team who are appointed according to our relevant laws.

Survey modifiers are high risk operations and vessel attributes that change the survey and other requirements that would otherwise apply to the vessel.

Our focus is on delivering better practice regulation so we can support safe vessel operations, and combat marine pollution.

Installing and programming an automatic identification systems (AIS).

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.

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

All ships must follow the requirements of MARPOL Annex V when discharging cargo residue.

AMSA surveyors will be using the checklist below when inspecting ships as part of our planned maintenance focused inspection campaign.

In this edition we explain how to complete a shaft survey report, tell you about changes to MARS, changes to surveyor identity cards and much more.

In September 2017 the Western Australian Department of Transport ran Exercise Ningaloo Challenge, which was the largest and most complex maritime environmental emergency response exercise ever conducted in WA.

How to get a engineering qualifications recognized if you are a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) seaman officer.

Learn how to get copies of documents certified for your certificate application.

Accurate weight declaration for cargo containers is a critical safety issue. Shippers must provide a verified gross mass for containers.