1 Jun 2023
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has secured a win for marine pilot safety, following the successful prosecution of a master and company in the Perth Magistrates Court on 23 May 2023.
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1 Jun 2023
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned the Panama-flagged bulk carrier Babuza Wisdom for 90 days for a plethora of detainable deficiencies including a defective rescue boat engine.
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30 May 2023
Charges were laid last Friday 26 May 2023, against the master and company that owns the high-speed vessel Falls Express
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20 May 2023
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has suspended the search for the crew of the Chinese fishing vessel Lu Peng Yuan Yu 028.
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18 May 2023
The search will continue today for the crew of a stricken Chinese fishing boat, Lu Peng – Yuan YU, in a remo
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19 Apr 2023
At around 5pm AEST on 17 April 2023, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) coordinat
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31 Mar 2023
On 20 March, a Sydney commercial vessel master was convicted for breaching a condition on a ve
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20 Mar 2023
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has handed down a 90-day ban to Netherlands-flagged ship Flevogra
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28 Feb 2023
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) yesterday issued a refusal of access direction
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24 Feb 2023
For the first time since the Covid pandemic began in 2020, Pacific nations will meet in Cairns
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16 Feb 2023
Today, the Royal Australian Navy and Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) have strength
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10 Feb 2023
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s (AMSA) Maritime Emergency Response Commander has is
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31 Jan 2023
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has released the latest iteration of its Compliance Strategy, outlini
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21 Dec 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) assisted Queensland Water Police in a search for an overdue dinghy wi
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20 Dec 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is issuing a reminder to passengers of commercial vessels ahead of th
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19 Dec 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will continue its vital role providing emergency search and rescue, a
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14 Dec 2022
Ahead of the busy summer holidays, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is calling on owners of distress b
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7 Dec 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated the medical evacuation (medevac) of an injured crew m
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16 Nov 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is proud to announce it is now on the Diversity Council of Australia’
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14 Nov 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has today banned the Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier Costanza
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11 Nov 2022
Congratulations to Catherine Hindley of Wave Shipping, who received the Seafarers Welfare Award last night at the DCN
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28 Oct 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) congratulates the recipients of this year’s National Search and Rescu
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11 Oct 2022
Traditional artwork from a remote island in the Torres Strait will soon be flying high across the Far North Queensland region and abroad.
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30 Sep 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated the rescue of a man from a yacht about 2km south of E
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30 Sep 2022
AMSA and the World Maritime Organization (IMO) celebrated World Maritime Day (WMD) by ‘lighting up’ three iconic Aust
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29 Sep 2022
The Victorian Department of Transport and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will put their emergency re
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23 Sep 2022
Australia recently joined 16 other nations to participate in the Indian Ocean Rim Association’s (IORA) Search and Res
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23 Sep 2022
A blast from the past has been uncovered by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) as part of a review of th
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15 Sep 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated the rescue of a small workboat with four people on bo
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7 Sep 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated the rescue of two crew members from a 14.2m sailing v
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6 Sep 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has been coordinating the rescue of two crew members from a 14.2m sai
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5 Sep 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) coordinated the rescue of an Austrian national, approximately 110km w
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22 Aug 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has assisted Western Australian Police (WA Police) in the search for
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20 Aug 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated the rescue of a lone kayaker after he encountered bad
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20 Aug 2022
AMSA wishes Gabo Island Lighthouse near Mallacoota in eastern Victoria a happy 160th birthday today.
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12 Aug 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) was contacted about 9am (AEST) on Wednesday 10 August by a 24m commer
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10 Aug 2022
Just before midday (AEST) on 9 August, NSW Police requested the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) provide a
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23 Jul 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) today banned the Liberian-flagged oil tanker AG
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22 Jul 2022
The 25th anniversary of the integration of Australia’s aviation and marine Search and Rescue (SAR) functions is being
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7 Jul 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has detained the MV Portland Bay
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7 Jul 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has led the rescue of a 70-year-old
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6 Jul 2022
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), as Maritime Emergency Response
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1 Jul 2022
Incident and inspection data on emerging risks to safety, continues to sharpen the compliance focus of the Australian
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18 May 2022
Today marks the inaugural International Day for Women in Maritime—a celebration of women’s contribution to the mariti
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13 Apr 2022
A prestigious international award was presented today at Byron Bay’s iconic Cape Byron Lighthouse after the tower was
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21 Feb 2022
The Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) are welcoming artwork
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23 Dec 2021
The owner of a passenger vessel which had numerous safety issues, who ignored a prohibition notice and continued to o
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22 Dec 2021
We are seeking feedback on draft heritage management plans for two iconic Lighthouses, located to Tasmania’s north.
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21 Dec 2021
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is a key part of Australia’s search and rescue system, built upon str
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11 Dec 2021
Australia has today been successfully re-elected to category b of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Counc
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7 Dec 2021
The tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in 2014 highlighted the need to improve the global air nav
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26 Nov 2021
Nominations are now open for the Australian Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) award which recognises the outstanding contribution by a VTS during 2021.
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5 Nov 2021
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s Response Centre has been officially recognised as a Commonwealth Emergency
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1 Nov 2021
Australia has provided marine oil spill response support to Sri Lanka following the sinking of the Singapore-flagged
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1 Nov 2021
A team of quick-thinking and resourceful professionals from Ports Victoria (formerly with Victorian Ports Corporation
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1 Nov 2021
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is inviting feedback from the dom
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21 Oct 2021
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) would like to congratulate the recipients of this year's National Sea
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5 Aug 2021
Australia-Indonesia Search and Rescue exercise continues to build closer international relationships
A search and rescue exercise (SAREX) between Australia and Indonesia was held today to further strengthen relationshi
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29 Jun 2021
Australia will have a greater level of search and rescue and maritime safety capability following a new agreement wit
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23 Jun 2021
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is conducting research throughout 2021 into how Very Low Sulphur Fuel
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3 Jun 2021
With the help of Indigenous landowners, an aid to navigation (AtoN) on Goods (Palilag) Island in the Torres Strait ha
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17 May 2021
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has coordinated the safe rescue of 20 Indonesian fishermen aboard a s
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30 Apr 2021
AMSA has banned the bulk carrier Movers 3 from Australian ports for 18 months following outstanding mechanical and survey issues being resolved this week.
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8 Apr 2021
The National Search and Rescue Council Australian Search and Rescue Awards are open for nominations.
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15 Mar 2021
A powerful lantern, hoisted high into view of passing ships by twenty-four metres of stainless steel, keeps watch over the dangerous, tropical seas between Coquet and Howick Islands in Far North Queensland.
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4 Mar 2021
Chief officer and company of a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier fined and convicted for dumping garbage into the Great B
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26 Feb 2021
AMSA is looking for interested tenderers for an upcoming project at Port Hedland, Western Australia.
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26 Feb 2021
The owner of a dilapidated barge who was caught operating the vessel in Pittwater despite a prohibition by autho
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24 Feb 2021
Yesterday, a solo sailor who was rescued after spending several hours alone in the ocean after being pitched overboar
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23 Feb 2021
The master of Sydney Harbour passenger vessel, Lady Rose, has pleaded guilty and been convicted of one count of unrea
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22 Feb 2021
The maintenance and operation of livestock ships exporting animals from Australia will be under the intense complianc
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18 Feb 2021
Four recreational spear fishers were rescued this morning after their 4.8 metre vessel capsized and sank off Broughto
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1 Feb 2021
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has helped save the lives of thirteen persons who had been missing f
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22 Jan 2021
The Auditor-General for Australia has found that the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s management of its
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8 Jan 2021
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has issued its most severe banning to date to the master and operato
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5 Jan 2021
A joint operation between the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and the Northern Territory Police on 4th J
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3 Dec 2020
A Marshall Islands-flagged tanker transiting the Torres Strait this morning has helped rescue two people from
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18 Nov 2020
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has successfully coordinated the medical evacuation of a seaf
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16 Nov 2020
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has announced that from 28 February 2021 the interim COVID ar
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5 Nov 2020
Nine Chinese and Filipino seafarers, some who have been on board their Panama-flagged cargo ship Brio Faith f
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3 Nov 2020
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has successfully brought a damaged vessel into the Port of Ge
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19 Oct 2020
Anthony Roy Wolfe, the owner of MV Wallaroo – an unseaworthy, ex-navy tug boat – was convicted of hindering a
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17 Sep 2020
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has today banned the Panama-flagged bulk carrier AC Sesoda fo
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1 Sep 2020
The national regulator for commercial vessel operations in Australia, including commercial crabbers and bait
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29 Aug 2020
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has today banned the Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier Unison Ja
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6 Aug 2020
Sydney company, MV Wolf Pty Ltd, has pleaded guilty to operating illegally and fined more than $15,000 in the
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6 Aug 2020
Gold Coast company, GC Princess Boatshare Pty Ltd, has been found guilty of operating a domestic commercial v
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30 Jul 2020
Overnight the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) banned the Liberian-flagged bulk carrier TW Hamburg
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28 Jul 2020
Hay Point Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) Operator Warren Bath has been recognised for his coordination of an i
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27 Jul 2020
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has today banned the Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Agia Sofia
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22 Jul 2020
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is launching a focused inspection campaign targeting cargo se
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