MAR40618 Certificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 35 metres Near Coastal)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MAR40618 ended on 25 October 2020 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 27 October 2021. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
MAR — Maritime Training Package
Currency period ends
25 October 2020
Latest release
Release 1 · 9 July 2018
Supersedes
MAR40613
Superseded by
MAR40320 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. MAR40618Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 35 metres Near Coastal)
  2. equivalent
  3. MAR40320Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Maritime Operations (Master up to 45 metres Near Coastal)
  4. not equivalent
  5. 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.

  • MAR40613MAR40618equivalent8 July 2018

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

  • MAR40618MAR40320equivalent26 October 2020

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MAR40618 and for its training package MAR (release 12.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

Is MAR40618 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MAR40618 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

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Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What MAR40618 is made of

training.gov.au lists 21 units for MAR40618: 21 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 21 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MARA003Manage loading, discharging and stowing of cargonot current
MARA004Manage vessel stabilitynot current
MARB010Plan and supervise routine maintenance on a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARB030Slip or dock a vessel and maintain hull on a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARC011Manage a propulsion unit using appropriate engine systems and support servicesnot current
MARC012Monitor and manage vessel operationsnot current
MARC014Operate deck machinery and steering gear on a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARF010Work safely in confined spaces on a vesselnot 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
MARG002Manage a small crewnot current
MARH006Forecast weather and oceanographic conditionsnot current
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
MARI004Observe regulations to ensure safe operation of a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARJ007Monitor environmental management on a vesselcurrent
MARK003Manoeuvre a vessel up to 80 metresnot current
MARN004Manage seaworthiness of a vessel up to 80 metresnot current

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 14 October 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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