MAR40320 Certificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 45 metres Near Coastal)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for MAR40320 ended on 20 November 2024 — 21 months ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 22 November 2025 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
MAR — Maritime Training Package
Currency period ends
20 November 2024
Latest release
Release 2 · 20 December 2022 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
MAR40618
Superseded by
MAR40324 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. MAR40320Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 45 metres Near Coastal)
  2. not equivalent
  3. MAR40324CurrentCertificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 45 metres Near Coastal)

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • MAR40618MAR40320equivalent26 October 2020

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • MAR40320MAR40324not equivalent21 November 2024

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is MAR40320 on your scope?

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What MAR40320 is made of

training.gov.au lists 22 units for MAR40320: 22 core and 0 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 22 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
HLTAID011Provide First Aidcurrent
MARA022Manage loading, discharging and stowing of cargocurrent
MARA024Manage vessel stabilitycurrent
MARB030Slip or dock a vessel and maintain hull on a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARB046Plan and supervise routine maintenance on a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARC047Manage a propulsion unit using appropriate engine systems and support servicescurrent
MARC048Monitor and manage vessel operationscurrent
MARC051Operate deck machinery and steering gear on a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARF027Apply basic survival skills in the event of vessel abandonmentnot current
MARF028Follow procedures to minimise and fight fires on board a vesselcurrent
MARF029Meet work health and safety requirementscurrent
MARF030Survive at sea using survival craftcurrent
MARG007Manage a small crewcurrent
MARH015Manage and maintain a navigational watch on board vessels up to 80 metresnot current
MARH016Plan and navigate a passage for a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARH017Use wheelhouse equipment for safe navigationcurrent
MARH019Forecast weather and oceanographic conditionscurrent
MARI004Observe regulations to ensure safe operation of a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARJ007Monitor environmental management on a vesselcurrent
MARK009Manoeuvre a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARN013Manage seaworthiness of a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
RIIWHS202EEnter and work in confined spacescurrent

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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