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The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) and the University of Tasmania’s Australian Maritime College (AMC) have launched a resource kit to help industry and commercial vessel operators comply with revised operational safety requirements.

Two local women are breaking new ground in the maritime industry, in the Torres Strait region.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has successfully prosecuted the master and owners of the Hong Kong registered bulk carrier ANL Kardinia for illegally dumping garbage in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

The cargo vessel which was at risk of rolling after rough weather caused cargo to shift has arrived in Broome with the assistance of a commercial tug, the Yarra.

Australia has been re-elected to second place on the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) reflecting our role as a key voice in international shipping.

AMSA’s Rescue Coordination Centre—Australia (RCC Australia) has successfully concluded a search for a missing aircraft en route from Swan Hill to White Cliffs.

A Queensland father and son were presented with the 2016 Australian Search and Rescue Award at an event hosted by the Western Australia Police in Fremantle on Thursday, 20 October 2016.

Domestic marine surveyors will now be accredited under a national system run by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).

The first of Australia’s new dedicated search and rescue aircraft has officially been accepted into service in Cairns.

A group of State Emergency Service volunteers from the Perth area will be trained in air search observation with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) this weekend (8-9 November 2014).

Ten aircraft are involved in today’s search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is hosting free safety workshops in Queensland next week for commercial line fishing operators and crews that use dories or tenders.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) and Queensland Police Service (QPS) are encouraging distress beacon owners to ensure they have a current GPS encoded 406MHz beacon registered with AMSA following an increase in incidents relating to out-dated and unregistered beacons.

AMSA coordinated the search and rescue operation for a French solo yachtsman in the Indian Ocean approximately 1300 kilometres south west of Perth, Western Australia.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority is coordinating a rescue operation for a solo yachtsman south west of Tasmania, now into its second day.

The rescue operation for a solo yachtsman who has abandoned his vessel and is in a life raft south west of Tasmania will continue throughout the night with aircraft remaining on scene to maintain communications with the sailor.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s (AMSA) Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC Australia) was advised this morning by the MV Akademik Shokalskiy that weather conditions have improved in the area and rescue operations are likely to commence shortly by helicopter.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has announced that from 28 February 2021 the interim COVID arrangements which have permitted seafarers to serve longer than 11 months on-board ships will end.

The search activities for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will continue today, weather permitting, in an area about 1,850 kilometres west of Perth.