The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has published Marine Notice 03/2015 setting out that vessels not complying with regulations such as safety standards, international labour conventions and marine environment regulations can be prohibited from using or entering Australian ports. 

Notably, AMSA can consider prohibitions on other vessels managed (owned/operated) by the same company if the standard of the vessel subject to the ban is “so poor as to cast significant doubt on the standards of other vessels managed by the same company“. In addition, AMSA has also left the door open to extending the timeframe of the prohibitions if the “performance of the company as a whole” is unacceptable.   

There are currently four vessels on the list of vessels that have been issued with prohibition directions published on AMSA’s website, including one vessel which has been banned for a period of 12 months.

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