---
title: "Coastal trading licence check for a voyage"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/maritime-shipping-and-transport/coastal-trading-voyage-check"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a37-coastal-trading-voyage-check"
area_id: "A37"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A37-T1-R13"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Coastal trading licence check for a voyage

> Checklist of the licence types and the section 12 declaration, as the Department of Infrastructure page describes them. The Coastal Trading Act was not opened. Periods are the page's, and the principal checks the Act.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/maritime-shipping-and-transport/coastal-trading-voyage-check  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Maritime, Shipping & Transport](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/maritime-shipping-and-transport.md)
- Jurisdictions: Commonwealth
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the authority it cites, for Commonwealth.

## When to use it

Use when a voyage would carry passengers or cargo between ports in Australia and the question is which coastal trading licence the department's page describes. Do not use it as the licence application.

## Used for these tasks

- [Map cabotage or coastal-trading licence duties for a voyage](https://ailawframework.com/practice/maritime-shipping-and-transport/map-cabotage-or-coastal-trading-licence-duties-for-a-voyage.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may insert the ports and the dates and may calculate whether a stated licence period, as the page describes it, covers the voyage dates. The principal decides which licence is needed.

**AI may:**

- Insert the load port, the discharge port and the voyage dates
- Name the licence or declaration the principal supplies and its expiry date

**AI must not:**

- Must not say the voyage is authorised
- Must not define reasonable resemblance
- Must not draft an application or a statutory declaration

**The lawyer checks:**

- Interstate movements are checked against a general, temporary or emergency licence as the page describes those licences
- An intrastate voyage is not treated as covered unless a section 12 declaration, or a section 11 instrument the principal has read, is in the file
- The Act is opened before anyone relies on a five-year, 12-month, 30-day or two-year period

## Authorities

- [Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, Coastal trading (licence types, variations, the section 12 declaration and section 11 exemptions)](https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/infrastructure-transport-vehicles/maritime/supporting-australian-maritime/coastal-trading)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/maritime-shipping-and-transport/coastal-trading-voyage-check and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*