On this page you will find Federal and State Restrictions in regards to Covid-19. You will also find a link to policies from international bodies such as the International Maritime Organization.
Important: please read the Federal Restrictions first and then read whichever set of State or Territory Restrictions that you are interested in as if they were one set of rules. It is meaningless to read either the Federal or the State/Territory rules in isolation from the other. So, if you are...
The APL England on Wednesday was escorted to the Port of Brisbane, where Australian officials will investigate an at-sea incident in which 40 containers were lost overboard and nearly 75 others were damaged.
Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) surveyors conducted an inspection of the container ship at anchorage on Tuesday and determined the vessel was structurally sound and could be safely brought into port. Two harbor tugs, one container salvage response vessel, two Queensland water...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/overboard-container-loss-investigation-underway
Vessels that arrive at the Port of Gladstone in Queensland will be allowed to berth on arrival as of 23:59 hours on Friday 15 May.
Maritime Safety Queensland today advised Shipping Australia that the rules on when ships can approach port at the Port of Gladstone will, at that point, be aligned with the Port of Brisbane and the Port of Townsville.
Gladstone is currently subject to the General Manager’s Direction issued 30 January, and which came into force on 01 February, that ships must not...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/breaking-news-ships-to-be-worked-upon-arrival-at-gladstone/
Crew changes for both on-signing and off-signing ship crews are now possible in Queensland following the entry into force of a new class exemption for non-cruise maritime crew.
New border rules supersede all previous directions. The new rules continue to ban anyone from overseas or from within Australia entering Queensland. But the rules now also give a “class exemption for...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/queensland-eases-border-restrictions-for-international-seafarers/
The Prime Minister of Australia announced that Australian citizens will be restricted from travelling overseas. This restriction commenced 25 March 2020 at 1200hrs AEDST.
This travel restriction does not apply to persons who are:
Maritime Safety Queensland (MSQ) has announced a significant easing of its restrictive policy of forcing ships to stay away for 14-days since they were last at an overseas port. But landside supply chains continue to experience problems in Queensland.
Acknowledging that there has been “a disturbing trend of vessel...
Within the first five years Brisbane’s new International Cruise Terminal is to handle over 1,100 vessel calls.
https://worldmaritimenews.com/archives/275153/brisbane-breaks-ground-on-new-cruise-ship-terminal/
Humane Society International (HSI) and the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) release graphic new footage and photographs of the true cost of Queensland’s Shark Control Program in the Great Barrier Reef.
Image Credit: marineconservation.org.au/HSI/AMCS/N McLachlan
The images were obtained this month at lethal drumlines set off the coast of Magnetic Island in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Pictured are two ensnared tiger sharks and a bull shark, hooked and left to slowly die....