We have released our Marine Incident Annual Report 2024, which gives detailed insights into marine incidents across domestic commercial vessels, foreign-flagged ships and regulated Australian vessels.
This report covers marine incident trends from 2020 to 2024 and provides an evidence base to support ongoing safety and compliance efforts.
It identifies key safety risks across the marine sector by drawing on:
- marine incident data
- inspections
- investigations
- other research.
These insights inform the 2025–26 National Compliance Plan.
Why marine incident reporting matters
Marine incidents and safety concern reports help us build a clearer picture of safety risks across Australia’s commercial vessel fleet.
Each reported marine incident is categorised by occurrence type to help identify trends in operational, technical and consequence-related events. These patterns are key to understanding what happened, and when paired with investigation insights—why it happened.
AMSA also has a process in place to report marine safety concerns. Anyone can lodge a safety concern when they see something that could pose a risk to vessel safety or the people onboard. In 2024, AMSA received 394 reports of marine safety concerns—a 7.9% drop compared to 2023.
What’s next
Findings from this report inform AMSA’s 2025–26 National Compliance Plan (NCP), which outlines safety improvement activities across the industry. The NCP will be published on our website in July.
The full 2024 Marine Incident Report is available now