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Marine Unit (Australian Border Force)

The Marine Unit, formerly the Australian Customs Service National Marine Unit, is a division of the Australian Border Force which acts as a Coast Guard in guarding Australia's coast. The Marine Unit focuses on surveillance and response activities within the Australian Economic Exclusion Zone, and the operation and training of ships and crews to do so.

ABF Marine Unit

2015 (2015) – present

Australia

Australian Border Force

Coast guard

Maritime Border Command

Canberra, Australia.

ABF MU

Commander Claire Rees (Acting)[1]

12 major ships
13 patrol boats

Facilities[edit]

Australian Border Force maintains a permanent base of operations for the Marine Unit at the Port Darwin East Arm Wharf.[2]

ABF boat Rottnest Island, Fremantle

ABF boat Rottnest Island, Fremantle

An ABF harbour patrol vessel, Pilbara Coast, Fremantle, 2020

An ABF harbour patrol vessel, Pilbara Coast, Fremantle, 2020

Australian Border Force rigid-hulled inflatable boat Rottnest Island near Kwinana Bulk Terminal, August 2021

Australian Border Force rigid-hulled inflatable boat Rottnest Island near Kwinana Bulk Terminal, August 2021

. Australian Security Magazine. 23 June 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2010.

"Govt to buy new border patrol vessels"

Parnell, Sean (26 July 2010). . The Australian. Retrieved 5 November 2010.

"Navy and Customs vessels cut back on border patrols"

ABF Maritime Border Command Patrol vessels