Key trends and safety insights from marine incidents reported to us in 2025 and trend analysis for previous years.
About the report
Each year, vessel owners, operators and crew report marine incidents to AMSA. We analyse this data to understand the safety risks affecting domestic commercial vessels (DCVs), regulated Australian vessels (RAVs) and foreign-flagged vessels operating in Australian waters.
The Marine Incident Annual Report 2025 presents key findings from the past year and identifies trends over the last 5 years, including common incident types, their impacts, and some of the contributing safety factors.
These insights help target compliance and education activities to improve vessel safety.
In 2025
- 4,174 marine incidents were reported including 1,229 involving DCVs.
- Passenger vessels continue to show a good reporting culture, accounting for almost half (46%) of all reported DCV incidents though comprising only 9% of the fleet.
- Larger DCVs (12m and over) made up 67% of marine incident reports, despite comprising only 21% of the DCV fleet.
- 4 fatal DCV marine incidents occurred.
- 228 injuries were reported on DCVs with 44 of these serious.
- Most serious crew injuries were linked to navigation (DCVs) or maintenance, operational access and cargo handling (RAVs/foreign-flagged vessels).
- Contact, collisions, groundings and power, propulsion or system failures continue to be the most common marine incident types across all vessel types.
- Common contributing factors include poor lookout and main engine/gearing failures.
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