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The below statement can be attributed to Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) General Manager, Emergency Response Division, John Young.

AMSA has ceased search operations for a 41 year-old seafarer who fell overboard from the vessel MT Sigma Integrity in the early hours of the morning on Sunday 27 July 2014.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has today banned the Panama-flagged bulk carrier AC Sesoda for deliberately underpaying its crew by more than AUD $118,000, which the ship’s operator attempted to conceal from authorities.

A pilot project to investigate the feasibility of recycling garbage from international ships has wrapped up at the Port of Brisbane. The Brisbane pilot was conducted by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), in partnership with the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (Agriculture) and Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd (PBPL).

In the Townsville Magistrates Court on 30 April 2012 the Master and owners of the Antigua & Barbuda registered bulk carrier Pantanal each pleaded guilty to illegally dumping food waste in a prohibited discharge area of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has prosecuted two shipping companies and their masters for two separate marine pollution incidents within the Great Barrier Reef.

A solo yachtsman was winched to safety in the early hours of this morning in rough seas off the southern New South Wales coast.

Three South African nationals have been rescued from their stricken yacht in the southern Indian Ocean

Search and rescue officers from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s (AMSA) Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC Australia) will be in Burnie on Thursday (today) to discuss operational aspects of Australia’s search and rescue system, present hypothetical situations and undertake tabletop exercises with Tasmania police officers.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has suspended the air and sea search near Christmas Island after an Indonesian man, who was part of a group of four men missing in the area, was found on Lily Beach on the east coast of Christmas Island.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) coordinated the search and rescue of three bushwalkers who became stranded due to rising waters in the Blue Mountains yesterday.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated a rescue of three fishermen off the coast of Weipa this morning after their fishing vessel sank.

A distress beacon was central to a search and rescue operation off the township of Grey in Western Australia last night (Wednesday, 11 October 2017).

AMSA inspectors boarded the Australian-flagged MV Tomin in the Port of Yamba, New South Wales, on Monday and detained the vessel because AMSA suspected the vessel to be unseaworthy, substandard and a threat to the marine environment.

A Marshall Islands-flagged tanker transiting the Torres Strait this morning has helped rescue two people from the water after their boat sank.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has prosecuted UK based company, Lombard Corporate Finance Limited, the owners of UK flagged car carrier, Morning Midas, following a pollution incident in Port Phillips Heads in August last year.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority is coordinating the search for a gyrocopter which has gone missing while on a flight between Bundaberg and Yeppoon in Queensland.

Hay Point Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) Operator Warren Bath has been recognised for his coordination of an incident involving a bulk carrier by the inaugural VTS award.

More than 350 lighthouses populate Australia’s coastal areas with 300 of these under the operation of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).