The Marine Incident Annual Report 2025 analyses marine incidents across domestic commercial vessels (DCVs), foreign-flagged vessels (FFVs) and regulated Australian vessels (RAVs), identifying trends across the entire fleet over the past five years.
In 2025, AMSA received 4,174 marine incident reports, providing a whole-of-fleet view of where safety risks are emerging and how they are changing over time to inform safer operations.
What’s driving marine incidents
Across the fleet, marine incidents are most often linked to routine vessel operations and system reliability. Collisions, groundings, and power, propulsion and system failures remain among the most common incident types.
Operational shortfalls were involved in over half of DCV marine incidents, most commonly related to vessel control and navigation, including maintaining an effective lookout.
Technical failures, particularly involving power, propulsion and steering systems, continue to present a consistent risk across all vessel types.
These patterns show that many marine incidents occur during everyday activities, where gaps in onboard practices,
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