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Last Wednesday night around 350 industry representatives attended Lloyd's List Australia's 19th Australian Shipping and Maritime Industry Awards in Sydney.

AMSA recognises the challenges faced by smaller operators in implementing some parts of the safety management system requirements as they are currently written under the Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012.

We have all heard of the term 'micro-plastics', but the amount of plastic waste in our oceans is huge!

Today is International Day of the Seafarer!

We successfully coordinated the rescue of five people off the coast of Jurien Bay in Western Australia on Sunday afternoon.

It's important to maintain your lifejacket according to the manufacturer's instructions for it to work when you need it to.

The situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted seafarer mental health and wellbeing significantly around the globe.

The light of the Macquarie lighthouse can shine 48 kilometres out to sea-more than the distance of a marathon.

Work underway at King Island's mighty Cape Wickham Lighthouse.

This year the International Day of the Seafarer will be celebrated for a week in the port of Newcastle with the local community invited to say g'day with a wave to visiting seafarers.

You have a responsibility not to pollute the sea. Plastic alone takes hundreds of years to breakdown and can be incredibly harmful to marine life.

The latest issue of the Maritime Safety Awareness Bulletin is now available online.

Additional information reminding industry of Marine orders and International Maritime Organisation (IMO) resolutions coming into effect on or around 1 January 2020 is now available.

Michelle Grech, Manager Vessel Operations, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, was awarded the Bob Campbell Prize for the best presentation and paper at the PACIFIC 2019 International Maritime Conference (IMC 2019) in Sydney in October 2019.

New compliance plan outlines what AMSA will be looking for over coming year.

From 1 January 2023, there are new regulations relating to air pollution from vessels.

The roll-out of new body worn cameras (BWCs) for AMSA's frontline staff has started, with the innovative and safety-focused technology to be operational nationally by December 2021.

A new safety campaign focused on the importance of regularly reviewing risks as part of your safety management system to protect lives on construction barges has been launched.

Recent incidents involving critical machinery failure have demonstrated the serious consequences that lack of maintenance on ships can pose to the safe and pollution-free operation of vessels.

On 1 July 2018, the new Marine Order 504 (Certificates of operation and operation requirements - national law) Marine Order 504 will commence.