Marine Transport Professionals nec (ANZSCO 231299)

On the Regional Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Marine Transport Professionals nec on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Marine Transport Professionals nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Marine Transport Professionals nec is a VETASSESS Group B occupation covering roles such as Boating Safety Officer, Marine Safety Officer and Vessel Traffic Officer — work that does not fit any of the named titles in its unit group. The qualification and employment pathways mirror the rest of Group B: a Bachelor-level qualification traded against one to six years of relevant employment depending on relevance. Like Master Fisher, VETASSESS states on its own page that this occupation is only available for the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa, subclass 494, on the standard skilled lists.

Where these applications come unstuck

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority runs its own migration skills assessment for Marine Engineer, Ship's Master, Ship's Officer and Marine Surveyor — the other four codes in the same unit group — and states directly that it does not assess Master Fishers or this nec code. An applicant whose work is broadly maritime can reasonably assume the maritime authority covers them; for this specific code, that assumption sends the application to a body with no power to process it. The nec justification requirement applies here too: a cover letter explaining why the work does not better match a named ANZSCO title.

An honest read on this pathway

This code exists for a narrow slice of genuinely maritime-adjacent work ANZSCO has not named separately, and VETASSESS — not AMSA — is unambiguously the correct assessing body for it. No labour-agreement or DAMA lane equivalent to Master Fisher's was found for this code in the sources reached here, so the 494-only ceiling on the standard skilled lists is the pathway to plan around unless an employer-specific route surfaces elsewhere.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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