AMSA has published its Corporate Plan 2016-2020 report including its strategy and goals for continuing to ensure safe vessel operations, combat marine pollution and rescue people in distress with success over the next four years.
Over the next four years, AMSA work program will:
- deliver and embed National System service delivery arrangements
- progress the National Maritime Safety and Environment Plan, which guides where AMSA applies its effort in response to changes and future trends in shipping
- further develop AVMAS to enhance capability in vessel monitoring and communications in the Australian Search and Rescue Region
- bring together information that will help AMSA predict the development of an incident, and consequently allow to intervene early to prevent the incident escalating • progress a core group of research projects looking to improve the way AMSA assesses shipping risk, and subsequently how AMSA allocates resources
AMSA recognizes the following challenges:
Challenge #1: Managing risks to safety and the environment
- Australia is the fastest growing cruise market in the world, experiencing double-digit percentage growth since 2014. Over one million Australians take a cruise every year and Australians spend an estimated 10 million days cruising annually
- Port visits by foreign-flagged ships totalled 27,344 in 2015, an increase of 1.5 per cent, but well down on the 4.8 per cent growth in 2014. The number of individual foreign ships which made port calls actually declined for the first time in several years, to 5,644, down 30 ships from 2014.
- In 2016 iron ore freight shipping rates on the spot market for the Pilbara–China route dropped below $3 US per tonne, down from $40 US per tonne at the peak of the mining boom
Regarding safety navigation, AMSA plans over the next four years to:
- optimise the draught regime through the Torres Strait where it is safe to do so
- deliver a Standardised Mode of Operation (S-100) based product specification related to UKCM chart overlay information that feeds into shipborne Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS)
- further the policy-setting responses for safety of navigation outcomes identified in the National Maritime Safety and Environment Plan
- deliver a national aids to navigation database in collaboration with Australian Hydrographic Office
- contribute to water space management practices for Australia
- optimise AtoN asset management strategies to enhance operational and financial objectives
Challenge #2: Building the National System for domestic commercial vessel system safety
The maritime industry in Australia has recently undergone one of the most significant periods of regulatory change in 100 years.
In July 2013 AMSA became responsible for maritime safety regulation for approximately 27,000 domestic commercial vessels and 66,000 domestic seafarers. Service delivery has been performed by states and territories on our behalf under delegated arrangements.
From July 2017 AMSA must be ready to assume responsibility for service delivery of the National System in accordance with the November 2014 decision of the Transport and Infrastructure Council. By mid-2019 AMSA will be responsible for full delivery and cost recovery for these services.
Regarding ational System for DCV , AMSA plans over the next four years to
- assume responsibility for service delivery and cost recovery by July 2017
- promote continuous improvement in marine safety and public confidence in the safety of marine operators
- facilitate the development of an industry culture to ensure the effective identification and management of safety risks
- • reduce regulatory burden without compromising safety.
Challenge #3: Delivering incident intervention and response.
AMSA is also an intervention and response agency that plans and prepares for incidents 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.
AMSA manages several large contracts and a range of logistical resources that we need to support our operations. There are training procedures―both for their own staff and those working for their state and territory partners.
It engages with a wide range of partner organisations both within Australia and internationally to enhance capabilities.
AMSA’s intervention and response operations:
• aeronautical and maritime search and rescue
• maritime casualty management
• marine pollution response
Regarding intervention and response, AMSA plans over the next four years to:
- prevent incidents occurring through a predictive, integrated intervention capability
- save lives by coordinating aeronautical and maritime search and rescue
- respond effectively and efficiently to maritime casualties and marine pollution incidents.
Challenge #4: Ensuring a vibrant and progressive organization
Factors such as the rapid pace of technological advancement, shifts in workplace demographics, a global employment market, the introduction of new law and regulation, and the ebb and flow of the world economy mean that AMSA must continually build and maintain its internal capacity and capability if it is to meet its external challenges.
AMSA plans over the next four years to:
- have a professional, flexible and engaged workforce that is change ready
- use technology to improve the services we deliver to do business anytime, anywhere
- ensure we can deliver our services within the available funding
- have effective and efficient processes and systems
- be a responsible corporate citizen
- apply our integrated management system across all of AMSA.
Futhermore AMSA has created the infographic below to depict the foresaid.
Further details may be found by reading the report below
Source & Image credit: AMSA