Port of Melbourne

Port of Melbourne invests to accommodate bigger ships

Pictured: a container ship underway. Photo credit: Cameron Venti via Unsplash.

Port of Melbourne will extend Webb Dock East Berth 4/5, enabling more ships to be berthed at the port.

WDE was completed in 2016 as part of the Port Capacity Project with a berth length of 660 metres, enabling two vessels of 300 metres to be berthed concurrently.

The design vessel was envisaged as being 300 metres long, 40 metres beam (wide) and 14 metres maximum draught.

However, there has been an increasing number...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/port-of-melbourne-invests-to-accommodate-bigger-ships/

SAL CEO presents at Victorian review into Melbourne Pricing Order

Pictured: Shipping Australia CEO, Melwyn Noronha. Photo: Shipping Australia.

Shipping Australia’s Chief Executive Officer, Melwyn Noronha presented at the hearing of the Victorian Essential Services Commission into the Port of Melbourne’s compliance with the Pricing Order.

Matters raised and highlighted by Capt. Noronha were:

  • the current framework has provided some restraint on price hikes for some of the prescribed services since the port was privatised
  • SAL members are concerned about the...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/sal-ceo-presents-at-victorian-review-into-melbourne-pricing-order/

Cash splash on new Melbourne intermodal freight terminal

Photo: a cash splash is underway! Photo: 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay.

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has found a spare few billion dollars or so tucked down the back of the National Accounts for priority projects, two billion of which is earmarked for a new freight terminal in the north west of Melbourne. The budget papers specifically state:

“…Up to $2.0 billion for the Melbourne Intermodal Terminal, with specific funding arrangements, including an option for equity...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/cash-splash-on-new-melbourne-intermodal-freight-terminal/

Investment certainty amid uncertain times; a skillful balancing act

Pictured: the city of Melbourne at night; Credit Alexis via UnSplash

Shaun Mooney, Executive General Manager (Commercial), Port of Melbourne writes:

At Port of Melbourne this year, efficient port operations have been maintained despite the challenges. The port, supported by its tenants and customers, continued to handle more than a third of the country’s container trade volumes despite Victoria being severely impacted by the global coronavirus pandemic, just months after a bushfire disaster.

The...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/investment-certainty-amid-uncertain-times-a-skillful-balancing-act/

Melbourne port strike suspended, while DP World ends lengthy dispute with union

The industrial action at Melbourne’s Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) has been suspended.
And, in a rare double-header of good news for delay-hit Aussie shippers, DP World has finally ended its protracted dispute with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA).
The union began a strike at ICTSI’s VICT on Friday, but the Fair Work Commission (FWC) issued an interim-order suspending the action early Saturday morning.
The Container Transport Alliance of Australia (CTAA) said: “CTAA …

The...

https://theloadstar.com/melbourne-port-strike-suspended-while-dp-world-ends-lengthy-dispute-with-union/

Serious industrial action at port of Melbourne on the way, VICT warns

Industrial action looks set to return to the port of Melbourne after the Maritime Union of Australia notified the terminal that its members would strike next week in a dispute over wages at the port’s Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT). The facility is Australia’s first box terminal to deploy automation and has long been a particular source of ire for the MUA. Liner body Shipping Australia has published an analysis of the dispute, concluding that the new wage demands could …

The...

https://theloadstar.com/serious-industrial-action-at-port-of-melbourne-on-the-way-vict-warns/

Port of Melbourne and Qube to fight box congestion

The Port of Melbourne and the Australian logistics provider Qube have secured a short-term agreement which makes available an empty container park (ECP) with capacity for up to 9,000TEU.

The allocation of a 60,000m² site within the Port of Melbourne’s Swanson Dock precinct, which is operational immediately under Qube’s management, follows ongoing discussions between Port of Melbourne, Qube and Freight Victoria, a Department of Transport body established to facilitate logistics in the state of...

https://container-news.com/port-of-melbourne-and-qube-to-fight-box-congestion/

Private operator should fund Port of Melbourne upgrade

Pictured: a jar of money; Photo credit: Melissa Walker Horn via Unsplash

Shipping Australia has lodged a submission with the Victorian Essential Services Commission (ESC) objecting to a price hike plan by the private operators of the Port of Melbourne.

In its application to the Victorian ESC, the port operators propose upping prices to fund an infrastructure upgrade. The Port of Melbourne would thereby be enabled to handle bigger ships.

Need for port upgrades was predictable and predicted

Shipping...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/private-operator-should-fund-port-of-melbourne-upgrade/

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