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.

A summary of discharge standards under MARPOL and local regulations if you are operating your vessel in Australian waters.

Be prepared before your trip. Stay safe in the air.

Accredited government and private surveyors, and recognised organisations who are qualified to conduct surveys on domestic commercial vessels.

The cargo ship Pacific Adventurer lost upwards of 270 tonnes of heavy fuel oil when holed on its port side while en route to Brisbane from Newcastle.

A summary list of major historical oil spill incidents.

In this edition we talk about recent surveyor audits.

Apply for acceptance on the oil spill control agents register.

If you suspect misconduct, fraud, or corruption involving AMSA officials, contractors or service providers, you should report it.

Our search and rescue incidents from 2017–18.

AMSA and the Bureau of Meteorology provide vessels with maritime safety information (MSI) about hazards and foreseeable dangers to safe navigation through Australia's marine environment.

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

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

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.

There are laws against ship sourced pollution and those responsible may be prosecuted under state or territory legislation.

The National Maritime Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulators Forum is a collaborative platform for discussing maritime workplace health and safety. Its main aim is to improve safety for domestic commercial vessels.

Purpose To ensure that navigation corridors are used appropriately when planning on ECDIS, and to ensure that a voyage plan approved by the ship’s Master is executed within the planne

We have conducted these inspection campaigns in the past, focusing on specific deficiencies and outcomes.

On 14 July 1975 the Marine Operations Centre in Canberra was alerted that the oil tanker Princess Anne Marie had sustained a large crack in its hull approximately 300 miles off Western Australian.