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.

The Maritine Agencies Forum (MAF) provides a forum for collaboration on maritime safety and other issues.

Australia implements a range of standards and regulations to protect the marine environment from pollution.

A video explaining how to develop a safety management system.

Follow these steps if your RAV is no longer carrying out commercial operations outside the Australian Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) or it's being brought to Australia to operate as a DCV.

Join the event online or in person at East Fremantle Yacht Club in WA.

If you are no longer carrying out commercial operations outside the Australian exclusive economic zone, you can switch to being a domestic commercial vessel by surrendering your regulated Australian vessel (RAV) Certificate of survey , Maritime Labour Certificate, and load line certificate. You can then apply for domestic commercial vessel certification.

Apply for acceptance on the oil spill control agents register.

Ben Fordham from Trepang Fisheries talks about float-free EPIRBS

You need full ownership history to register a vessel. If you don’t have this information, you must submit a notice of intention to register a vessel to AMSA.

We have offices all around Australia. You can contact our state offices using the details below.

Under Marine Order 503 a transitional vessel is an existing vessel that has: 

On 21 July 1991 Greek tanker Kirki lost its bow off the coast of Western Australia, resulting in a major pollution incident.

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

This marine notice advises vessel owners, vessel operators, masters, officers, seafarer training organisations and industry organisations that AMSA does not consider electronic visual distress signals (EVDs) to be a suitable replacement for pyrotechnic distress signals.